A presentation on Silverlight in April 2008 touched on why businesses have expressed a need in USER EXPERIENCE in the past two years and in the years moving forward.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/m...t-presentation

RIA development tools such as Silverlight, Flash, Flex, and possibly JavaFX and the people who are able to develop for them are becoming increasingly more in demand.

Getting data from XML
To gain access to the data that we want to use we need to traverse the XML DOM (Document Object Model). To traverse the XML DOM we use the XML object properties like firstChild and childNodes. If you have used the XML object before then I’m sure you have created statements that looked something like this:
myXML.childNodes[1].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
Can you tell what data this statement is referring to without dissecting the XML structure first?...