Representing Geometries as Strings
Representing each segment in a Geometry with a separate element is fine for simple shapes and paths or geometries formed dynamically in procedural code. For complicated artwork in XAML, however, it can get extremely verbose. Although most people use a design tool to emit XAML-based geometries anyway rather than craft them by hand, it makes sense to keep the resultant file size as small as reasonably possible.
Therefore, XAML supports a flexible syntax for representing just about any PathGeometry as a string. The PathGeometry representing the simple triangle displayed in Figure 7.11:
<Path Fill="Orange" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="10"> <Path.Data> <PathGeometry> <
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