XML in .NET
Visual Studio and the .NET Framework have built-in support for designing schemas, editing and creating XML files, and a complete set of class libraries for writing applications that need to read and write XML.
The core XML classes in .NET are compliant with the W3C standards for XML, XSLT 1.0, XPath 1.0, DOM Level 1 and DOM Level 2, namespaces, XSD 1.0, and XSD schema. That compliance means interoperability between different systems isn't an issue.
In .NET, all XML-specific classes are in the System.Xml namespace. The System.XML namespace is a complete XML parser with extensible classes that enable you to work with XML in any number of ways. The abstract XmlReader, XmlWriter, and XmlDocument classes provide parsing, reading, writing, ...
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