Real World XML

Chapter 8. XML and Data Binding

XML is all about storing data. It turns out that Internet Explorer supports a number of techniques to let you extract that data without needing any programming at all: You can use data binding. We'll see how that works in this chapter.

In the previous chapter, we took a look at working with XML documents in Internet Explorer using the DOM. In that chapter, we used methods such as firstChild, lastChild, lastSibling, and so on to work through a document. Using methods such as those give you complete access to the data in an XML document. Regarding an XML document as a node tree can be confusing, however, especially if you forget that the character data in an element is stored in its own node.

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