Chapter 26. LINQ to XML

Getting Started with LINQ to XML

Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) that was standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1986.

Markup languages, together with a set of attributes, create a contextual document structure, or define the presentation of document content—or both. Today, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is probably the most popular markup language in the world because it’s used to store and ...

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