> What's XLINQ?

Hmmm....   It has been all-over the blogs and web-sites for the last two
weeks.

This is a must-read:

http://research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/Papers/XLinq XML Programming
Refactored (The Return Of The Monoids).htm

And, of course:

      http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev