Abstract

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has emerged as a web standard for representing and transmitting data over the Internet. XML is a generic, platform independent data description language and has gained great popularity in the computer industry as it is adopted by the largest companies in the computer industry. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has produced standards for several XML-related technologies. The W3C has standardized an application-programming interface (API) for accessing XML documents known as XML DOM. The DOM API represents an XML document as a tree of nodes. Because an XML document is hierarchical in structure, one can build a tree of nodes and subnodes to represent an entire XML document. One can get to any arbitrary node by starting at the root node and traversing the child nodes of the root node. If the node one is looking for is not found, one can traverse the grandchild nodes of the root node. This process continues until one finds the node that is being looked for. This chapter discusses the support that Internet Explorer has continually added for XML with each release. XML support is taken to a new level within the .NET Framework. In fact, use of XML is prevalent throughout the .NET Framework including use in configuration files, C# source code comments, and web services. The chapter explains how to work with XML and related technologies provided within .NET using C#.

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