In this chapter we presented the basics of XML and its purpose. We also demonstrated some of the ways that XML can be used within the .NET Framework and how to work with XML from VB.NET. By the end of the chapter, we had shown you how to configure IIS and SQL Server 2000 to return XML documents that can be easily manipulated to produce HTML pages. Much of the information covered here is background for the material presented in Chapter 10. Questions and Answers
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