Summary
XML has emerged as a technology to be reckoned with. Its wide acceptance has proven that XML is here to stay…at least for a while. ASP.NET and ADO.NET rely heavily on XML under the covers. Data that is moved around with the ADO.NET Managed Providers is persisted and transmitted as XML. Although all of this happens without any interaction by you, the System.Xml namespace provides a set of classes that enables easy integration of XML into your ASP.NET applications.
The XmlDocument and XmlDataDocument classes make reading and working with XML data simple. You easily can read and write XML data to the file system, or use the Xml server control to display the XML data in the browser. Add the XslTransform class into the mix, and you easily ...
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