The .NET Framework offers several options for passing XML-based data between components within a single process and AppDomain. This episode looks at the available options and discusses the design tradeoffs of each approach.

by Glen Kunene – Despite all its promise for free data exchange among disparate applications, Web application developers still contend with XML’s shortcomings. Startup Clear Methods claims to have developed a powerful yet simple solution: XML as a general-purpose programming language called Water.

One of our visitors decided they would give something back. It’s not much, but here are a couple of ASP functions for XML Data transfer that they found to be very useful.

by Benoît Marchal – This tip shows you how to implement robust document validation with XML schema and JAXP 1.2. Examples are included for SAX and DOM parsers.

by J.V.Ravichandran – A DataSet represents storage of data for efficient manipulation of data for an application. A dataset can contain multiple tables of results. The tables in a dataset can represent data from many different sources (for example, from databases, from XML files, spreadsheets, and s

by Per Bothner – In this article we will show to to write and install a very simple web application written in the XQuery language. We will also show you how errors are handled, and how you can debug them. Our application uses the servlet extension of Qexo (version 1.7beta2 or later), a free softwar

The XmlReader class is an abstract base class that provides non-cached, forward-only, read-only access. The XmlReader class checks that the XML is well-formed, and throws XmlExceptions if an error is encountered. It can read a stream or a document, and it implements the namespace requirements outlin

By Eric B. Parizo – Many would argue that Microsoft Corp. hasn’t had nearly as much success in the enterprise software market as it has selling consumer products. However, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant no doubt hopes its XML-enabled Office 2003 software suite will change that when it is re

by Premshree Pillai – The XML Data Source Object is an ActiveX control that allows you to manipulate data between XML files and HTML pages. This article will show you the basics of how to extract content from various XML data sources and how to present that data using a little JavaScript.

This section provides an architectural overview of XML in the .NET Framework. The design goals for the XML classes in the .NET Framework are: