This two-day course teaches the different types of XML parsing available in .NET. The course starts off with an overview of the .NET Framework and XML classes found in the System namespace. It then dives into the different parsing methodologies available from Microsoft.

We first study the .NET Framework classes that Microsoft created to efficiently traverse XML streams. We will study the XMLReader classes and the many properties and methods available to create fast parsing applications. We will detail each of the Reader classes and overview the differences between each. Then we will look at the XMLTextWriter class and the different methods available for creating an XML stream and sending it to another application.

Next we study the widely used Document Object Model (DOM) specified by the World Wide Web Consortium. Upon completion students will be fluent in the .NET System.Xml DOM classes and the various ways to retrieve, modify, and delete XML data.

Upon completion of this course the student will easily program XML application in .NET and understand which parsing method to apply for the problem domain.

.NET Training Learning Objectives

• Understand the purpose of the .NET Framework XML classes.
• Identify the .NET classes involved in parsing and creating XML documents.
• Identify the trade-offs between cached/non-cached and push/pull XML parsing.
• Modify, create and delete information in an XML document using the DOM .NET classes.
• Handle XML parsing exceptions.
• Parse and validate XML data streams using XMLReader classes
• Use the XMLTextWriter class to create XML data streams.