Chapter 10. Query and transform XML with LINQ to XML

This chapter covers:

  • LINQ to XML query axis methods
  • Querying XML documents using LINQ to XML
  • Transforming XML

Over the last several years, many websites have begun to offer public XML web services that allow developers to access the data inside their site. Amazon.com provides a set of e-commerce web services that allow you to search their product catalog, Flickr lets you grab photographs that people have identified as interesting, and del.icio.us exposes XML feeds that allow you to keep abreast of websites that users have added to their bookmarks. By providing this data to clients as XML, Amazon, Flickr, and del.icio.us have enabled third-party developers to tie into their platforms to ...

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