Chapter 3. XML Presentation

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Xml is a great tool for working with and structuring data. So far, this book has focused on the data. Chapter 1, "XML and ASP.NET: The Basics," showed you the basics of creating a well- formed document and gave you some practical uses for XML. Chapter 2, "XML Schemas in .NET," showed you how you can use XML to convey and validate the structure of an XML document. It also showed you why validating the data can be important. This chapter shows you some of the different mechanisms that exist for displaying data, including data islands, XML data source objects, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). You also look at Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Markup Language (WML) for working with a variety of devices. Finally, the benefits, tradeoffs, and differences between declarative programming with XSLT and processing information with Active Server Pages (ASP) are dicussed.

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