Chapter 5. MSXML Parser

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Now that you've learned the basics of XML and its related technologies, you can begin working with XML documents. The .NET platform introduced the System.XML namespace to work with XML documents. The .NET Framework System.XML classes were modeled after Microsoft's XML Parser, MSXML 3.0, but several improvements were added, such as better standards compliance, extensible APIs, and a simpler programming model. The MSXML Parser still continues to be the cornerstone for native COM applications that use XML (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Dynamic HTML applications, Microsoft Office,Visual Basic 6.0, and so on).

In this chapter, you learn how to work with XML documents with the two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Document Object Model (DOM) and the Simple API for XML (SAX2) , as implemented in the high-performance MSXML COM component. This chapter discusses the use of DOM in the client-side and how to continue using MSXML with ASP.NET on the server-side by using the COM Interop services provided in .NET.

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