Other .NET XML Classes
The
.NET framework provides a full complement
of classes for XML manipulation, which are found in the
System.Xml
family of namespaces (see Table 17-5).
Class |
Description |
XmlDocument |
An in-memory representation of an XML document. You can navigate freely through its structure, adding, removing, inserting, or modifying nodes. |
XmlSchema |
An in-memory representation of an XML schema document. |
|
Allows you to quickly retrieve XML data from or save it to a file or stream. These classes provide optimized forward-only access. |
XmlValidatingReader |
Similar to XmlReader in that it provides read-only, forward-only
access to an XML file or a stream. Unlike
|
XslTransform |
Allows you to perform XSLT transformations to change an in-memory XML document to another XML document. |
These classes offer XML-specific functionality that
isn’t directly available through the ADO.NET
objects. For example, if you load a serialized
DataSet
using an XML file and XSD schema, you may not receive a warning if the XML document violates the schema; typically, you’ll just lose some of the data. In cases in which you aren’t sure if the XML file fits a given schema (or, in other words, you aren’t sure that the data in an XML file pertains to a given table or a given version of that table), you can run through the ...
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