> From: Alexander Johannesen [mailto:alexander.johannesen@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:21 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  LINQ to XML versus XSLT
>
> Why no language hasn't got XML as a native datatype yet
> is the truly absurd thing. Everybody use XML, yet no language has got
> it in its fabric.
>
> result =
>    <contacts>
>       <contact>
>          <name>Patrick Hines</name>
>          <phone>...</phone>
>          ...
>       </contact>
>    </contacts> ;

Actually you can do exactly this in VB.NET today and Microsoft has said that
it will backport the VB.NET idea to C#.


Andy.