Chapter 10. Chapter Basic XML: The Quiz Maker

Since the late 1990s, there has been a great deal of interest in a technology called XML (eXtended Markup Language). XML has promised to transform many types of programming, and support of XML is one selling point of the .NET framework. You will now learn how to incorporate XML in your programs. In this chapter you will learn how to do the following tasks:

• Recognize the basic rules of XML syntax.

• Associate various parts of an XML document with the appropriate .NET classes.

• Navigate through the elements and nodes of an XML document.

• Store data in an XML structure.

• Retrieve data from an XML structure.

• Store and load XML documents to files.