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Oleg Tkachenko has a nice post comparing the StAX (java) and XmlReader (.NET and XmlLite) approaches to streaming over a potentially large XML data source and filtering out unwanted elements. He concludes: if you work with StAX you can readily work...

[updated to escape the code so that it displays properly in HTML, and so that it gracefully handles input with an XML declaration] Several people have asked for a feature in LINQ to XML that would keep track of the line number in an XML data source...

Joel Spolsky has an interesting post on the Language Wars -- the permanent debate among those who think their currently preferred programming language is the best. He drew some heat from the blogosphere because he advocates a pragmatic approch for others...