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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Michael Entin's notebook : wwf</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/archive/tags/wwf/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: wwf</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>When jokes become reality</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/archive/2008/12/11/when-jokes-becomes-reality.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:02:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9198050</guid><dc:creator>michen</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/comments/9198050.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9198050</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9198050</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;Couple years ago Charles Petzold wrote about &lt;A href="http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/CSAML.html" mce_href="http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/CSAML.html"&gt;C# Application Markup Language&lt;/A&gt; - XML syntax for C#. Go read it if you've not seen it yet.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Well, it was a fool day's joke of course (the publishing date at the bottom hints about it).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;But yesterday, when playing with Windows Workflow Foundation rules, I've looked at the ruleset file, and discovered exactly that - huge XML file that looked familiar :), very close to Charles joke. This is how WWF internally stores the simple one-line rules that one types in the editor. Luckily for us, we don't have to type this XML, and WWF convert the human-readable C# into this monstrosity itself, so it is more an internal details than a language humans would ever use.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9198050" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/archive/tags/wwf/default.aspx">wwf</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/michen/archive/tags/humor/default.aspx">humor</category></item></channel></rss>