Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

.NET XML Framework Concepts

Although .NET is a new platform, Microsoft realizes that XML is a fundamentally important technology. So, .NET has been designed to contain extensive XML support right from the beginning. This chapter covers various techniques of working with XML via Microsoft's .NET Interfaces that programmers will need to help them achieve their desired results.

First, programmers need basic methods that allow the data contained within XML Documents to be parsed and accessed programmatically. There are two common approaches to this issue. The lower-level method cycles through the document reporting whenever a node is parsed. There are several standards for this method of parsing, such as the Simple API for XML (SAX). Microsoft has ...