Writing a Guest Book Application

XML can be used as something more than a means of describing and packaging data. By walking through a fully functional Guest Book application I explain how to combine XML with XSL and ASP.NET to write Web-based applications.

The first impression most developers get after reading about XML is that it sounds great, but they don’t know exactly what use it is. In this section I show you a little how XML knowledge combined with ASP.NET and XSL can be used to create a guest book application for your Web site.

Guest books are a simple function of most Web sites. This program can be easily broken down into an XML structure by analyzing the type of information you want to record from visitors, XML is very handy when ...

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