About XML and Web Services
Everyone's been talking about .NET and XML Web
Services lately, to the extent that I think a lot of developers new
to XML think that XML and Web Services are synonymous.
I'd like to make it very clear that this just
isn't so.
Web Services could not exist without XML, but
there's a whole lot more to XML than just SOAP,
WSDL, and UDDI. While XML does provide the basic syntax for all the
Web Services standards, it also has its own unique set of features
that can be used in many interesting ways, from data interchange to
web site content management.
While some books purport to teach XML in .NET, they all seem to skimp
on the basics of XML processing. I hope this volume fills that gap.
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