Chapter 14. XML

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Serialize an Object to and from XML

• Write XML from Scratch

• Read an XML File

• Validate an XML Document

• Query XML Using XPath

• Transform Database Data to XML

• Transform XML to HTML

XML has become the lingua franca of information exchange. There is hardly a technology anymore that doesn’t use XML data in some way, whether it’s an import/export format, a native database format, or just configuration data.

This is due in part to its very nature. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language, and it’s eminently flexible and suited to a wide variety of tasks.

.NET supports XML in many ways, from a multitude of ways to read, parse, and search, to creation and validation.

Most samples in this chapter use the ...

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