I realized the LINQ-to-XML query that I was creating was taking the *values* out of the XML and copying them to a new object. Ergo, there is no direct link back to the XML.

The three technologies are: XML literals, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Factory Services and LINQ. XML literals and LINQ are new in Visual Basic 9 (VB9). LINQ gives us a common syntax for ...

Transforming XML from one format to another is a common task for many developers. To do this, most of them leave the confines of their general purpose language and make calls to an XSLT library ...

I am not really even sure how to Google search for this, as I am not really sure how to formulate the question, so I'll try and give an example. I am using LINQ-XML to parse an input file that I ...

XML literals, WCF factory services and LINQ, taken by themselves, are very useful. When these are combined, you get a completely different picture for solving real-world problems. All while ...