XML in the .NET Framework
The .NET Framework XML core classes can be categorized according to their functions: reading and writing documents, validating documents, navigating and selecting nodes, managing schema information, and performing document transformations. The assembly in which the whole XML .NET Framework is implemented is system.xml.dll.
The most commonly used namespaces are listed here:
System.Xml
System.Xml.Schema
System.Xml.XPath
System.Xml.Xsl
The .NET Framework also provides for XML object serialization. The classes involved with this functionality are grouped in the System.Xml.Serialization namespace. XML serialization writes objects to, and reads them from, XML documents. This kind of serialization is particularly ...
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