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About three years ago, I left a software conference believing that no future programming would be possible without a strong understanding of XML. XML has indeed come a long way since the early days, finding its way into even the deepest recesses of common programming frameworks. In this article, I'll review the role and internal characteristics of the Microsoft .NET Framework API that deals with XML documents and then I'll move on to address a few open points.

Prior to the advent of the .NET Framework, you used to write XML-driven applications for Windows by exploiting the services of MSXML—a COM-based library. Unlike the classes in the .NET Framework, the MSXML library is more of a bolted-on API than a piece of code that is fully integrated with the underlying operating system.

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