The XML classes in the .NET Framework have been designed to offer:

• High productivity

• Compliance with W3C standards

• Extensibility

• A pluggable architecture

• High performance

• Integration with ADO.NET

For detailed information on the suite of XML classes in the .NET Framework, see the System.Xml, System.Xml.XPath, System.Xml.Xsl, System.Xml.Schema, and System.Xml.Linq namespaces.

• In-memory XML processing: The .NET Framework provides three options for processing XML data in-memory: LINQ to XML the XPathNavigator class, and the XmlDocument class.

• Stream-based XML processing: The XmlWriter and XmlReader classes provide a non-cached, forward-only means of processing XML data.

• For more information, see XML Processing Options in the .NET Framework.

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