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In this chapter, we discussed two Microsoft technologies that we can use to create data services components that can access data: ADO 2.5 and the SQL ISAPI extension. ADO will allow you to access data in any data store, whereas the SQL ISAPI extension allows you to access data in a SQL 6.5 or 7.0 database. Using ADO and the SQL ISAPI extension, you can create XML data that can be presented to the user and used for updating data.

The XSL ISAPI extension allows you to automatically transform XML documents using XSL on the server when the client does not have Internet Explorer 5 installed. This can be used if you do not want to write ASP pages that use the DOM to perform these translations. In the next chapter, we will look at Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000, a new technology that enables business partners to exchange information.