XML is the de facto language for communication both within and between
distributed applications whether they are on the Internet or a corporate
network. It owes its success to its two key strengths: a
highly-structured human readable format and the fact that it can be
transmitted as pure text. No matter how disparate applications and their
architectures may be almost everything can read text files and hence can
accept XML data. This gives it a great advantage over rival technologies
such as Remoting which were previously popular but which are now being
replaced by XML-based solutions.
This book provides a complete solution to XML on the .NET 2.0 Framework,
including the new .NET 3.0 extensions. It provides readers with
everything they need to know to take advantage of XML in every aspect of
their working lives up to and including integration using Windows
Communication Foundation.