Microsoft XML 2.5 SDK


 

What's New in XML

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

The XML SDK documentation contains several new and expanded topics.

General

"Frequently Asked Questions About XML," which can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general, contains a new "Issues and solutions" section that explains several commonly encountered problems and their solutions.

XML Developer's Guide

A new topic, "White Space Handling," explains how white space is handled by the XML parser in element content and attributes, and how it is handled by the XML object model.

The "Content Model" topic has been expanded and now provides more detailed information about ElementType and AttributeType attributes used to define the content model for an element.

The topic "Data Types" provides information about the new attribute data type features added to Internet Explorer 5.0. These new data types include id, and simple data types such as int, boolean, and float.

The topic "XML DOM Persistence" lists the various methods and properties used for persistence in the XML Document Object Model.

Tutorials

A new tutorial, "Lesson 5: Using XML Namespaces," explains how to declare explicit and default XML namespaces.

The tutorial "Lesson 7: Using Data Types Within XML Documents" has been modified to better introduce data types.

The tutorial "Lesson 8: Accessing Typed XML Values" has been modified to better describe accessing typed values.

XSL Reference

The topic "xsl:script Element" now includes an example of how to instantiate COM objects with XSL scripts in Internet Explorer 5.01.

XML and XSL Samples

Many samples referenced in this documentation are available from the MSDN Online XML Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml.