Good 'XML with .Net' reference or Book

Question

Greetings!

This is quite a newbie question but forgive me. Can anyone recommend a good place, either site or book, to get up to speed on the XML Frameworks with .Net. I think I have the basics down but I have the feeling it's not as elegant as it could be.

For example:

1. When to use XMLDocument or XMLReader for finding elements
2. How can I find a single element directly, is it possible without knowing the parent nodes?

So I reference/book recommendation would be welcome?

Thanks! :D

Answer 1

Besides a good book (like this one) you might also need to bring your XML knowledge up to par. Check W3Schools for some great basic lessons. For example a solution to your second question should be XPath.

Answer 2

You can think about to use LINQ to XML of the 3.5 version of the .NET Framework. Scott Gutrhie published a good post in his blog using this and another features of c# 3.0. Here you can find more explanation about it.

Answer 3

Try,

WROX Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML by Thiru

I my understanding its one of the outstanding book on .NET and XML