19.2 Displaying XML on the Web with eXml

These days, more and more data is available as XML. XML is often used as a common language for integrating disparate services, and it is becoming commonplace for relational databases (such as SQL Server and Oracle) to produce XML output in response to queries. As more data becomes available as XML, it becomes increasingly important to find easy and efficient ways to display that data on the Web.

eXml is an ASP.NET 2.0 server control for displaying XML on the Web. It can display raw XML or an XSLT transform of that data. eXml is similar to the .NET Framework’s XML Web Server control (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Xml) but provides additional processing capabilities, including support for EXSLT, XInclude, friendly XML rendering, XML processing instructions, embedded stylesheets, and whitespace stripping.

eXml at a Glance

Tool

eXml

Version covered

1.1

Home page

http://www.xmllab.net/Products/eXml/tabid/174/Default.aspx

Power Tools page

http://www.windevpowertools.com/tools/101

Summary

ASP.NET 2.0 server control that can be used to display either raw or transformed XML on the Web

License type

BSD

Online resources

Documentation, forum, discussion list

Supported Frameworks

.NET 2.0

Related tools in this book

nxslt2, XInclude.NET, XPointer.NET, EXSLT.NET

Getting Started

You can download eXml from http://www.xmllab.net/Downloads/tabid/61/Default.aspx. The distribution is a ...

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