Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic® .NET

Chapter 7. XML

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Structure of XML

• Representation of Complex Structures

• Hierarchical XML

• The Document Object Model

• Commands to Move Data Between a Table and XML

• How FoxPro Implements XML

• Importing XML into Visual Basic .NET

• Reading XML into a Visual Basic .NET Dataset

• Using XML and Data Islands to Reduce Server Load

• Related Technologies: XPATH and XSLT

• Extensible Style Sheet Transformations (XSLT)

As we saw in the previous chapter, XML is instrumental in transmitting data between computers. Visual FoxPro 8 includes robust support for XML. In fact, Ken Levy, head of the FoxPro division at Microsoft, spent the majority of the past year building the XML editor for Whidbey.

In this chapter you'll learn a lot more about XML, and gain an understanding ...