The next four chapters take a look at LINQ to XML, a new approach to programming with XML.
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Part II
LINQ to XML
Chapter 5: Understanding LINQ to XML
Chapter 6: Programming with LINQ to XML
Chapter 7: LINQ to XML and Other LINQ Data Models
Chapter 8: Advanced LINQ to XML Programming Topics
Chapter 9: LINQ to XML and Visual Basic .NET
Understanding LINQ to XML
XML is becoming more and more mainstream. It??™s being used in databases (I love that!),
configuration files, and throughout the Web, and is becoming a more popular mechanism for
formatting your day-to-day data such as spreadsheets and documents.
Until now, working with XML has been somewhat frustrating because of the many different
technologies available to developers to work with XML. There??™s the DOM (Document Object
Model), which provides a standardized interpretation of an XML document. You also have XPath
and XSLT, which afford the ability to query and format XML. Within the .NET Framework you
have the System.Xml namespace, which makes available a programmatic representation of XML
documents and mechanisms for manipulating XML documents, nodes, and XML fragments.
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