Summary

This has been another hands-on chapter. We have covered every action that is available in the XML package and learned some great skills. This chapter's walk-throughs have taken you through a multitude of exercises, including reading single and multiple nodes from XML data streams. You also learned how to update single and multiple nodes within XML files. Furthermore, you've learned how to insert and delete nodes and values from XML files. Apart from this, we built our bot so that it executes XPath functions that return results. Since many applications typically utilize the XML format, understanding how to work with these files can help us discover many of the automation opportunities that are available to us. Creating your own XML files can also be a good way to store metadata for your bots.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to apply RPA to Excel tasks. We will cover the basics of opening, closing, and saving workbooks. We will also be reading and updating...