LINQ to XSD

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LINQ to XSD
Software demonstration at PLAN-X 2007
Ralf L¨ammel
Microsoft Corp., Data Programmability Team
Redmond, WA, USA
Abstract
‘LINQ to XSD’ is the code name of an incubation project at Microsoft
that investigates a typed XML processing approach for
.NET and LINQ. The LINQ to XSD technology comes essentially
in the form of a mapping tool that takes XML schemas (in fact,
XSD schemas) as input and maps them canonically to .NET types
that serve as typed views on XML trees (to be precise: XML trees
of the LINQ to XML API). These typed views are also called ‘XML
objects’ so as to differentiate them from ‘plain objects’. The LINQ
to XSD technology also provides some elements of Visual Studio
integration. The LINQ to XSD programming model supports
functional-programming-like (say, LINQ-like) queries, expressionoriented
tree construction, OO-like tree updates, and operations for
mediation between typed views and untyped trees.
1. Background
‘LINQ to XSD’ is the code name of an incubation project at Microsoft
that investigates a typed XML processing approach for
.NET and LINQ. The LINQ to XSD technology comes essentially
in…