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Only days after Gillmor pleads with us to stop blocking RSS adoption, and already Microsoft has responded by syndicating Dare Obasanjo’s blog via RSS directly into the home page of the MSDN XML Dev Center. Tell me what other BigCo listens like that? And I just saw something RSS-related that Ciam Sawyer is working on on behalf of the empire, and I think it’s really going to please Gillmor.
Also check out Mark Fussell’s article on the new features in System.Xml for v2. Working on a product team at MSFT is difficult, because you spend more than half your time fighting for features that never make it into the next release. But when he writes down the list of things that made it like this, it’s not so bad. Note, however, the class named XPathEditableNavigator — the name is an abomination, and if you want to get it changed in time for RTM, you will need to e-mail Mark and ask him to change it. (for the humor-impaired, that’s a joke, the name is being changed)