Microsoft® Visual J#™ .NET (Core Reference)

Validation and Entity Resolution

Once you use XML documents to exchange business information, you’ll need additional functionality to help manage these documents. Data can flow smoothly between applications only if the applications agree on how the data will be formatted and what the structure of the data will be. XML provides the formatting and encoding for business data, but the required structure will depend on the applications involved.

Validating XML Documents

If XML documents are to be shared between applications, the receiving application must understand the contents of the document. Writing code to check that the document format is correct can be time consuming and prone to errors. To avoid coding, you can define the expected format of a ...