this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 1.0423" 552 page count Books for professionals By professionals ® Beginning XML with C# 2008: From Novice to Professional Dear Reader, Modern software systems are becoming more and more distributed and involve heterogeneous platforms. As an industry standard, XML plays a vital role in such systems, because it can represent your data in a platform-neutral way. The data can then be exchanged across application layers and transformed with the help of XSLT to suit your requirements. It’s no wonder that Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 provides strong support for XML and its allied technologies. If you aim to master the array of XML features provided by the .NET Framework, this is the book for you. This book details all the major XML features in .NET. Being a developer and trainer, I have selected topics that suit the requirements of real-world projects: • Reading and writing XML documents with the Document Object Model • Reading and writing XML documents with XmlReader and XmlWriter • Dealing with XML data using the new LINQ to XML classes • ADO.NET integration and the XML features of SQL Server • XML serialization • Web services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services Understanding these topics will give you a solid foundation for harnessing the power of XML in your .NET applications. Moreover, you will have the skills to select and apply the appropriate XML technologies in your projects and to develop cross-platform, distributed, XML-driven applications more effectively than ever before. Bipin Joshi BinaryIntellect ® Consulting Microsoft MVP | Member of ASPInsiders Author of Developer’s Guide to ASP.NET 3.5 Webmaster of www.dotnetbips.com www.binaryintellect.net www.bipinjoshi.com/.net/.org US $44.99 Shelve in .NET User level: Beginner–Intermediate Joshi XML with C# 2008 The eXperT’s Voice ® in .neT Beginning XML with C# 2008 From Novice to Professional cyan MaGenTa yelloW Black panTone 123 c Bipin Joshi Companion eBook Available THE APRESS ROADMAP Beginning XML with C# 2008 Beginning C# 2008 Illustrated C# 2008 Pro LINQ Pro WPF in C# 2008 Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition Beginning C# 2008 Databases www.apress.com SOURCE CODE ONLINE Companion eBook See last page for details on $10 eBook version Master the .NET Framework’s XML features to build powerful, data-driven applications ISBN 978-1-4302-0997-3 9 781430 209973 5 4 4 9 9 Beginning [...]... and Outer XML 105 Getting an XmlReader from XPathNavigator 107 Getting an XmlWriter from XPathNavigator 110 Editing XML Documents with the XPathNavigator Class 112 Summary 118 ■CHAPTER 5 Validating XML Documents 119 Providing Structure for XML Documents... is worthwhile to peek into this new framework, and Chapter 12 does exactly that Another exciting addition to the NET Framework is Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) LINQ to XML is an especially cool new addition for XML developers Chapter 13 is dedicated to this new programming model Here, you will learn about core LINQ to XML features including parsing and loading XML trees the LINQ to XML way and validating... NET Framework • Use of XML in the NET Framework • Introduction to Visual Studio If you find these concepts highly familiar, you may want to skip ahead to Chapter 2 What Is XML? XML stands for Extensible Markup Language and is a markup language used to describe data It offers a standardized way to represent textual data Often the XML data is also referred to as an XML document The XML data doesn’t perform... discussion, when I talk about validating XML documents, I will be referring to XML schemas Parsing XML Documents XML data by itself cannot do anything; you need to process that data to do something meaningful As I have said, the software that processes XML documents is called a parser (or XML processor) XML parsers allow you read, write, and manipulate XML documents XML parsers can be classified in two... contains classes related to the LINQ to XML features Using these classes you can manipulate XML documents and fragments efficiently and easily Some of the important tasks that you can accomplish include loading XML from files or streams, creating XML trees via code, querying XML trees using LINQ operators, modifying XML trees, validating XML trees against schema, and transforming XML trees Some of the... XML representation of the preceding markup would be as follows: DTDs and XML Schemas Creating well-formed XML documents is one part of the story The other part is whether these documents adhere to an agreed structure, or schema That is where Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and XML schemas come into the picture DTDs and XML schemas allow you to convey the structure of your XML. .. 2008, and the Sandcastle help file generation tool Structure of This Book The book is divided into 13 chapters and three appendixes Chapters 1 to 4 talk about navigating, reading, and writing XML documents by using classes from the System .Xml namespace In these chapters, you will learn to use classes such as XmlDocument, XmlReader, XmlWriter, and XPathNavigator xxi Joshi_09973FRONT.fm Page xxii Tuesday,... business -to- business (B2B) applications Let’s say that application A captures order data from the end user and represents it in some XML format This data then needs to be sent to application B that belongs to some other business It is quite possible that the XML format as generated by application A is different from that required by application B In such cases, you need to convert the source XML data to. .. such as XmlDocument represent the NET Framework’s DOM-based parser, whereas classes such as XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter allow you to quickly read and write XML documents This namespace also contains classes that represent various parts of an XML document; these classes include XmlNode, XmlElement, XmlAttribute, and XmlText We will be using many of these classes throughout this book System .Xml. Schema... occurs is essential To that end, Chapters 7 to 9 cover topics such as ADO.NET integration with XML, XML serialization, and XML web services Microsoft has not limited the use of XML only to areas such as ADO.NET and web services SQL Server incorporates many XML- related features These features are discussed in Chapter 10 Though this topic isn’t strictly one of the XML features of NET, many developers will . Beginning XML with C# 2008 From Novice to Professional ■■■ Bipin Joshi Joshi_09973FRONT.fm Page i Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:50 PM Beginning XML with C# 2008: From. Beginner–Intermediate Joshi XML with C# 2008 The eXperT’s Voice ® in .neT Beginning XML with C# 2008 From Novice to Professional cyan MaGenTa yelloW Black panTone 123