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Just to relate better to what is happening, Figure 8.12 shows the screenshot of the original data in the
MS-Access database, which was converted into XML.
Figure 8.12 Original data in MS-Access
KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
XmlReader
XmlWriter
CHAPTER SUMMARY
XmlReader provides the features of fast operation, pull style API, forward-only access, and read-
only operation.
XmlWriter works in a fashion that is identical to that of XmlReader – except that it writes data,
rather than reading it.
In ASP.NET, we can retrieve data from a traditional RDBMS directly as an XML document! This
is useful in situations where ...