XML and ASP.NET

What's Inside?

This book gives as complete a picture of XML and ASP.NET as possible without trading a book's bulk for its content. We discuss XML from a basic level and quickly move to an advanced discussion on its implementation and the formal recommendations.

Many topics are covered throughout this book, including the following:

• The XML 1.0 Recommendation

• The XML Schema 1.0 Recommendation

• The XPath 1.0 Recommendation

• Changes to ASP.NET

• The XSLT 1.0 Recommendation

• Using XML with ADO.NET

• Creating and manipulating XML documents using the .NET Framework classes

• Whitespace handling in XML

• Validating XML documents

• Using Visual Studio .NET to work with XML

• Using and controlling XML serialization

• Other available tools and utilities to work with XML

• Creating and consuming XML Web Services

• WAP and WML programming

Microsoft has done a great job of including volumes of information on XML in MSDN, and there is plenty of information to sort through on the web as well. We make specific references to documentation, sites, and other books and magazines throughout this book. Rather than list different websites in this section, we suggest you visit www.newriders.com and www.xmlandasp.net for updated articles, code listings, and links to more information.