.NET programming area at Sigmea Blog http://sigmea.dyndns.org Sigmea Programming Blog. In this blog I talk about some of the personal work I do in .NET programming. Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:01:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Reading and Writing XML in .NET Version 2.0 - Part 1 http://sigmea.dyndns.org/?p=1 http://sigmea.dyndns.org/?p=1#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:48:34 +0000 admin http://sigmea.dyndns.org/?p=1 It must be tough for companies that develop software for working with XML. No sooner do they get a product out of the door, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) changes the recommendations and standards so that their product is out of date. Yet the manufacturers still have to maintain backward compatibility with their previous releases, while attempting to encompass all the new standards. We’ve seen this several times before in Microsoft’s XML product space, and the process shows little sign of stabilizing yet.

OK, so the base specification for XML itself, version 1.0, is complete, stable and implemented in almost all products now. But recent advances in technologies such as XML Query Language (XQuery - see http://www.w3.org/XML/Query) and the XML Information Set (XML InfoSet - see http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/) require changes to core classes in the System.Xml namespace with each release of the Framework, to keep up with evolving standards. (more…)

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