Applied XML Programming for Microsoft® .NET

The XML DOM Programming Interface

The central element in the .NET XML DOM implementation is the XmlDocument class. The XmlDocument class represents an XML document and makes it programmable by exposing its nodes and attributes through ad hoc collections. Let’s consider a simple XML document:

 <MyDataSet>     <NorthwindEmployees count="3">         <Employee>             <employeeid>1</employeeid>             <firstname>Nancy</firstname>             <lastname>Davolio</lastname>         </Employee>         <Employee>             <employeeid>2</employeeid>             <firstname>Andrew</firstname>             <lastname>Fuller</lastname>         <Employee>             <employeeid>3</employeeid>             <firstname>Janet</firstname>             <lastname>Leverling</lastname> ...