title: Using '\' in javascript to declare string occupying multiple lines
body: <p>While looking through a 3rd party JavaScript API and example code I noticed the following declaration. Basically XML assigned to a string but they seem to split it up on multiple lines using '\', I was unaware this could be done in javascript. Could anyone provide some more details on how this works?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <pre><code>var PrimaryChannel = '&lt;ChannelParams ChannelType="Digital"&gt; \
                                  &lt;DigitalChannelParams \
                                      PhysicalChannelIDType="Cable" \
                                      PhysicalChannelID="107" \
                                      DemodMode="QAM256" \
                                      ProgramSelectionMode="PATProgram" \
                                      ProgramID="2"&gt; \
                                  &lt;/DigitalChannelParams&gt; \
                              &lt;/ChannelParams&gt;';
  </code></pre>