Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Using XML and XSL

During the past couple of years, XML has truly emerged as a core standard for a large number of applications, including a platform-independent way of representing data with associated metadata, separating data from its actual visualization and presentation, standardizing system and business connectivity using Web services, and so on. Consider a scenario where order information is coming from a back-end ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, such as SAP, Oracle, or PeopleSoft. This information comes as XML and you would like to present it in a Web application for an Order Entry/Customer Self-Service application. You have two choices: Either programmatically parse the XML using its DOM (Document Object Model), or utilize an ...