XML Unleashed

Summary

In this chapter, you saw that XML and databases are a great combination. Like bacon and eggs, port and Stilton, and vodka and caviar, they seem to be designed to go together. You looked at how to leverage ASP to connect XML and data stores, how to use XML as a middleman between data stores, and how to use XML as a data store in its own right.

ASP uses the ActiveX objects on the server side to access both databases and XML files. Databases are accessed using the ADODB objects, and XML files are accessed either as a DOM tree using the Microsoft.XMLDOM object or as flat files using the Scripting objects.

For reasons of space, the coverage of ASP has been rather terse. If you would like further information, see the following sources:

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