XML that follows the XML tag rules listed in the W3C Recommendation for XML 1.0, but doesn't have a DTD or schema. A well-formed XML document contains one or more elements; it has a single document element, with any other elements properly nested under it; and each of the parsed entities referenced directly or indirectly within the document is well formed. Well-formed XML documents are easy to create because they don't require the additional work of creating a DTD. Well-formed XML can save download time because the client does not need to download the DTD, and it can save processing time because the XML parser doesn't need to process the DTD.