Chapter 5. LINQ to XML

XML has been a rapidly growing technology because it provides a verbose means for transferring data that can be understood easily by computers as well as by people. You will often need to query the XML data.

Another common requirement is to transform XML into a different format. In some scenarios, you simply want to convert XML to a different form of XML. In other scenarios, you might want to convert XML into HTML. You might even want to convert XML into text.