eXml is a free open-source ASP.NET 2.0 Web server control extending and improving standard ASP.NET XML Web server control. eXml Web server control uses new .NET 2.0 XSLT processor - XslCompiledTransform class to perform XSL transformations thus providing in average 400% performance boost and improved standard compliance. Additionally eXml Web server control provides built-in support for 70+ EXSLT extension functions, XML Inclusions (XInclude) 1.0, friendly XML rendering, XML processng instruction, embedded stylesheets and conditional whitespace stripping.

The introduction of a native XML data type in SQL Server 2005 means that SQL Server will truly support XML. SQL Server 2005 lets you integrate XML data with other data in a relational database, which will provide tremendous flexibility.

Roll out the red carpet! Yukon's on its way, bringing great news for XML users: an xml data type that brings better functionality than any earlier SQL Server release

Radhakrishnan Srikanth explains how to infer and tune schemas starting from XML documents. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 release of the System.XML Schema Inference API is used to illustrate how to automatically infer a schema from an XML instance document.

In ASP.NET 2.0, the new XmlDataSource control greatly simplifies binding XML sources to controls, letting you display hierarchical XML data easily. It even leverages XSLT, XPath, and caching, eliminating much manual coding.

XML is the most popular technology for structuring data. Encryption of XML data is crucial to ensure end-to-end security for applications that require secure exchange of structured data. .NET 2.0 provides simple mechanisms to encrypt and decrypt data, thereby enabling security of your data.

Dare Obasanjo provides examples of lesser-known class functionality in System.Xml.Schema namespaces.

Process an xml file or stream; read group & attribute values; write & delete grps, attribs, values & comments.

The XmlTreeView adds a range of useful features to the standard TreeView for working with XML.

Supports merging of .config file settings, such as in a push to staging-server deployment environment. Also supports xpath updates. Class Library and Console app provided.

A Smart Client is an application that uses local processing, consumes XML Web Services and can be deployed and updated from a centralized server.

Microsoft's .NET framework provides a multilayered application development platform ideal for building XML-based Web services, a Microsoft engineer emphasized during a keynote presentation at the Software Development Conference and Expo on Wednesday.

One of the more powerful facilities of the .NET framework is its capability to store and retrieve object state from XML in a process called XML object serialization. In this article, Dale Michalk shows how to use this to parse and create XML documents with ease and minimal coding.

In this article, Dale Michalk focuses on the Document Object Model (DOM) API for XML information processing. Most programmers have become accustomed to this model while using XML parsers such as MXSML.

XML and Web services are emerging as the platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA), both for intra- and inter-enterprise communication. As the first Java integrated development environment (IDE) for both authoring and consuming SOA, WebLogic Workshop inherently pushed the envelope with proprietary innovations. Since then, BEA has delivered on the promise of investment protection for these innovations via mechanisms ranging from open standards to open source. BEA's commitment to investment protection frees developers to take advantage of its cutting-edge productivity and integration features without fear of vendor lock-in. Let's take a look at the key SOA-based innovations in Workshop and how investment is protected in each case.

XML is the preferred way of transporting data from one system to another because it represents the structure and relationships of data elements without regard for presentation. XML has become the standard method for transporting data and has consequently driven the evolution of other technologies in recent years. Web services use HTTP/XML to request services and receive results. Databases support direct input and output of XML. XPath supports XML queries, and XSLT controls the visual presentation of XML data.

Microsoft's Longhorn will introduce XAML, an application development framework for Web and Windows apps. But just how different is XAML from the already-available public standards set by the W3C?

By far one of the easiest web controls to implement into a website, the AdRotator is a great introduction into plugging a control into your site, as well as a good introduction for those of you who have little experience with XML. From start to finish, it took me about 10 minutes to have rotating ads on the bottom of all my pages, with the ability to show certain ads more often than others. There are two steps to using the AdRotator on your page: creating an instance of the AdRotator web control on the page and creating the advertisement xml file.

There are many situations where you might find yourself holding an XmlReader that contains XML fragments representing data rows or pieces of an XML document. One of the most common is if you perform a query against SQL Server with a FOR XML clause. Another might be if you get that row set from a Web services call. Unless you just rip through the nodes in a forward-only, read-only, node-level manner, you will probably want to get that data in a more usable form for you application. You may want to get the data into an XmlDocument so that you can work with it using the XML Document Object Model (DOM), or you may want to get it into a DataSet so that you can easily data-bind against it. You may want to do both - be able to run XPath queries against the data, and data-bind to a grid in the UI.

the adoption of XML will enable the Web to enter a new dimension of use and usefulness. In this chapter from his book, Dave Carlson shows you how to recombine the XML information content with a presentation that is appropriate for the viewing device and the user's requirements in order to create a portal application.