Bridging the Gap Between XML and Data Access
XML continues to be one of the hot technologies in the development world. More and more developers are finding that passing data as XML between different service layers or different applications provides tremendous flexibility and allows for interoperability between disparate systems.
You can use an XML document to store data such as information about a series of customers and each customer’s order history. In some ways, an XML document is similar to an ADO.NET DataSet or an ADO Recordset. Each object can store multiple pieces of data in a well-defined structure.
With previous development technologies such as Microsoft Visual Basic "classic" or Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), developers traditionally ...
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