July 2006
Beginner
910 pages
20h 14m
English
book
ASP.NET 2.0 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies®
by Doug Lowe, Jeff Cogswell, Ken Cox - Microsoft MVP
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Chapter 6. Reading XML and Generic Data
In This Chapter
✓ | Creating an XML file for use in a data application |
✓ | Transforming an XML file for viewing in a browser |
✓ | Connecting to XML as a data source |
✓ | Using the |
In recent years, XML has become a common format for storing and transferring data. As a result, you may well encounter some requirements where your Web site has to process XML data.
ASP.NET has some advanced XML handling features that will make your XML work easier. The idea behind the XML features is that your application treats XML data simply as data — just like the data from a database. Thus you use a data source whose specific job is to handle XML data.
In addition to XML, another data source that ASP.NET provides is a general object data source, which can handle data from any kind of object. In this chapter, I cover these two kinds of data sources.
All the code listings that are used in this book are available for download at www.dummies.com/go/aspnetaiofd.
Putting Together Some XML
In order to use the samples in this chapter, you will need some XML. If you happen to have an old pile of XML lying around the living room, feel free to use it. Otherwise, you can use the sample data I provide here.
Listing 6-1 shows an XML file that contains a list of animals arranged hierarchically by type (mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish). ...
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