DOT Net namespace

Question

Explain the main classes given by the .NET namespace to process the XML files.

Answer 1

XmlTextReader: Gives forward only access to a stream of XML data and verifies whether or not an XML document is fine formed.

XmlTextWriter: Gives forward only way of producing streams or files having XML data which conforms to W3C XML 1.0.

XmlDocument: Gives navigating and editing features of nodes in an XML document tree. XmlDocument is the most commonly used class in ASP.NET applications which use XML documents.

XmlDataDocument: Gives support for XML and relational data in W3C XML DOM. You can employ this class with a dataset to give relational and non-relational views of similar set of data

XmlPathDocument: Gives a read-only cache for XML document processing by utilizing XSLT. This class is optimizied for XSLT processing and does not verify for the conformity of the W3C DOM.

XmlNodeReader: Gives forward-only access to the data symbolized by the XmlDocument or XmlDataDocument class

XslTransform: Gives support for XSLT 1.0 style sheet syntax which enables you to transform an XML document by employing XSL style sheets.