This book teaches XML theory and application for VB programmers with no previous XML experience. Following a complete introduction to XML concepts and syntax, you'll rapidly discover where and how you can take advantage of XML in your applications, and how to create new and innovative applications that use XML to achieve powerful results.

Professional Visual Basic 6 XML shows the VB community how to take advantage of XML technology and the available (free-to-use) implementations. The flexible and standards-based data description that XML provides can be used in a myriad of places where VB programmers are active. Think of 'Passing complex data from one application to another' (importing data from other systems is a very common enterprise scenario), 'Passing data from the client to the server in a multi-tier environment', 'Storing your user settings or user documents in your own XML format'. All ways in which XML can be employed within your VB development environment to increase speed and long term efficiency, are just some of the topics covered in depth in Professional VB XML.

• Provides a unique perspective into how XML will affect the VB programmer.
  
• Includes complete reference to the current XML spec.
  
• Explains XML schemas.
  
• Shows how to build distributed applications in Visual Basic to manage XML data.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to XML

Chapter 2: XML Validation

Chapter 3: Programming the Document Object Model

Chapter 4: Using XML Queries and Transformations

Chapter 5: Linking with XPointer and XLink

Chapter 6: Maximizing Performance of XML Applications

Chapter 7: Introducing the Sample Application

Chapter 8: Developing an XML Editor

Chapter 9: Storing and Retrieving XML Data

Chapter 10: Using a VB Component to Implement Linking

Chapter 11: Distributed Objects

Chapter 12: Transforming and Transmitting the Data

Chapter 13: Converting Word To XML

Appendix A: XML Document Object Model

Appendix B: SAX 1.0:The Simple API for XML

Appendix C: XPath Reference

Appendix D: XSLT Reference

Appendix E: XLink/XPointer Reference

Appendix F: Support and Errata