Mahesh

• Dec 9th, 2005

 

XSD stands for XML Schema Definition.It define the structure of the XML file and the elements and attributes it contains.The datatype of the elements.So that when u populate XML data into dataset, the dataset can treat elements differently based on their type.If XSD is not present dataset treats all elements as string type. XSLT stands for XML style sheet lang tranformation.It is lang used for transforming XML data in one format to another format.Example XML data into HTML format. XSLT uses XPath to identify the elements in XML doc and transform those to desired format

Srinivas Sayini

• Feb 3rd, 2006

 

Before developing any application in .NET it is better to define data types which can be used in creating objects of that type.This is where XSD plays a great role. develop the XSD file for the simple and complex types and genereate the classes using XSD.exe tool.
Use these objects created from these class types in the application for data carrying and others.
Once you load these objects with the required data you can serilize into XML file and if required further use XSLT to present this data in HTML format.