What XML products does Microsoft provide?
Microsoft has worked hard to develop XML resources in a number of areas: • Data access. The most recent incarnations of ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) have had support for XML generation and consumption for nearly a year, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 provides a number of interfaces for converting SQL-based information into XML and back again. • Browser support. Microsoft was the first company to produce a commercial browser (Internet Explorer 5) capable of reading XML files, either in their raw structured form or through XSL or CSS style sheets. • BizTalk Server 2000. Microsoft® BizTalk Server 2000 provides a means to communicate across a wide variety of formats, including XML, to help facilitate business-to-business applications. BizTalk Server also includes a number of schema generation and mapping tools to vastly simplify the development of XML structures for business or commercial needs.
