Organization of This Book
This book is organized into two major sections. The first eleven chapters cover a series of increasingly complex topics, with each chapter building on the previous one. These topics include:
Reading XML using the standard
XmlReader
implementationsWriting XML using the standard
XmlWriter
implementationsReading and writing formats other than XML by creating custom
XmlReader
andXmlWriter
implementationsManipulating XML using the Document Object Model
Navigating XML using XPath
Transforming XML using XSLT
Constraining XML using W3C XML Schema
Serializing XML from objects using SOAP and other formats
Using XML in Web Services
Reading XML into, and writing XML from, databases with ADO.NET
Each of these chapters is organized in roughly the following manner. I begin each chapter with an introduction to the specification or standard the chapter deals with, and explain when it’s appropriate to use the technology covered. Then I introduce the .NET assembly that implements the technology and give examples that illustrate how to use the assemblies.
The remaining nine chapters provide an API reference that gives an in-depth description of each assembly, its types, and their members.
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