[AccessD] What is XML

Well it is the backbone of Web Services and SOA.
You can also use even Access 97 to call SOAP based web services but you 
have to write a lot of your own code
to handle deserializing the returned xml strings. It is lot easier in 
Access 2003 and duck soup in VB.net since it creates reader classes on 
the fly
from the endpoint wsdl file.

The hardest part of learning XML is no one teaches what are the basic 
defaults and what is unstated, assumed and un ...derdocumented
For example when you display an XML file in IE it is automatically 
transformed by default through XSLT by an XSL file.
to give you a pretty display in html.
If you use the WebBrowser control there is a hidden XSL file applied by IE
to the XML file that allows the expansion and contraction of the XML  tree
by pointing at the "+" and "-" images.
 The default XSL stylesheet is a resource in MSXML.DLL or MSXML3.DLL
depending on the MS release version of XML you are using. If you want to see
what it does, it can be retrieved in IE5 or 6 using the URL:
 res://msxml.dll/defaultss.xsl

here is a vb based site that has some basic xml tutorials
You can think of XPath language as similar to SQL queries.
http://www.vbxml.com


Joe Hecht wrote:

>And why do I care as an Access developer?
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada