Significant API Design Enhancements

After a few years of experience with Microsoft's W3C XML DOM API, several key areas have been identified by Microsoft as inconveniences, annoyances, or weaknesses in the original API. To combat these issues, the following points have been addressed:

  • XML tree construction

  • Document centricity

  • Namespaces and prefixes

  • Node value extraction

Each of these problem domains has been a stumbling block to working with XML. Not only have these issues made XML code bloated, and oftentimes unintentionally obfuscated, they needed to be addressed for XML to really work seamlessly with LINQ queries. For example, if you want to use projection to return XML from a LINQ query, it's a bit of a problem if you can't instantiate an ...

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