What's the difference between an element and a node in XML?

Question

I\'m working in Java with XML and I\'m wondering; what\'s the difference between an element and a node?

Answer 1

A node is defined as:

the smallest unit of a valid, complete structure in a document.

or as:

An object in the tree view that serves as a container to hold related objects.

Now their are many different kinds of nodes as an elements node, an attribute node etc.