24.1. A Tale of Two XML APIs
When the .NET platform was first introduced, programmers were able to manipulate XML documents using the types within the System.Xml.dll assembly. Using the contained namespaces and types, you were able to generate XML data in memory and save it to disk storage. As well, the System.Xml.dll assembly provided types allowing you to load XML documents into memory, search an XML document for specific nodes, validate a document against a given schema, and other common programming tasks.
While this original library has been used successfully in many .NET projects, working with these types was a tad bit cumbersome (to put it politely), as the programming model bore no relationship to the structure of the XML document itself. ...
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