XML literals undermine the MVC paradigm?http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2006/02/03/524263.aspxDaniel Cazzulino has a very thought provoking post XLinq: is XML embedded in a host language a good idea or a terrible one? I believe Microsoft should strive not to provide another technology that could potentially bring back the nightmares we lived withen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)XLINQ XML Literals - Reemergence Of Classic ASP Spaghetti Hell?http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2006/02/03/524263.aspx#524563Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:30:32 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:524563DonXml's All Things Techiere: XML literals undermine the MVC paradigm?http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2006/02/03/524263.aspx#528956Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:56:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:528956G Mladenov&gt; XML literals are just syntactic sugar for generating constructors <br /> <br />I couldn't agree more. XML literals are just object initializers and they do have their place in the language. It would be so much easier to construct XML fragments with literals. I can only hope that C# 3.0 will also implement them, not just VB9. <br />