Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework

OBJECTIVES This chapter covers the following Microsoft-specified objective for the "Consuming and Manipulating Data" section of the "Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft...

You can't use the .NET Framework effectively unless you're familiar with XML. That's true even if you're working only with desktop applications, but if you...

Access and Manipulate XML Data: Access an XML file by using the Document Object Model (DOM) and an XmlReader. The most basic thing you can do...

Access and Manipulate XML Data: Transform DataSet data into XML data. One area in which the .NET Framework's use of XML is especially innovative is in...

Access and Manipulate XML Data: Use XPath to query XML data. To pass the exam, you should also have basic knowledge of XPath. XPath is another...

Access and Manipulate XML Data: Generate and use an XSD schema. In "Creating and Manipulating DataSets," you learned how to create an XSD schema in...

The .NET team is not the only group at Microsoft that's been working with XML. Over the past several releases, Microsoft SQL Server has become...

Chapter Summary KEY TERMS DiffGramDOM (Document Object Model)DTDvalid XML documentW3C (World Wide Web Consortium)well-formed XML documentXPath Extensible Markup Language (XML) is pervasive in the .NET Framework. It's used...

Exercises Compiling XPath Expressions The .NET Framework developers invested a lot of effort in finding ways to make code more efficient. One performance enhancement in evaluating XPath...