System.Xml Document Support
The System.Xml namespace implements a variety of objects that support standards-based XML processing. The XML-specific standards facilitated by this namespace include XML 1.0, Document Type Definition (DTD) support, XML namespaces, XML schemas, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, DOM Level 1 and DOM Level 2 (Core implementations), as well as SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, SOAP Contract Language, and SOAP Discovery. The System.Xml namespace exposes over 30 separate classes in order to facilitate this level of the XML standard's compliance.
To generate and navigate XML documents, there are two styles of access:
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