Date: Mar. 11, 2001
Link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/devaspcom2/chapter/ch10.html
Source Author or Organization: Shelley Powers, O'Reilly & Associates

This article is an excerpt from Developing ASP Components, 2nd Edition by Shelley Powers, from O'Reilly & Associates.

The article introduces using XML through server-side Visual Basic (VB) -based Active Server Page (ASP) components, and includes sample code. It begins with an overview of XML basics and XML Namespaces, then moves to formatting XML with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and transforming XML with Extensible Style Language Transformations (XSLT).

Next is an explanation of adding the Microsoft XML (MSXML) type library to a VB component project to create new XML content or edit existing XML content, including an overview of the key XML handling objects in the library. Finally handling XML files containing database queries and saving Active Data Objects (ADO) recordsets as XML are covered.