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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:03:43 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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Steve D wrote:
> I've been doing some c# programming and have just started using LINQ
> (language integrated query).
> 
> Using LINQ

Not trouble free for building into Ada or libraries, I guess,
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090144229

> and the .NET framework I was able to query an XML document
> for all elements with a given element name,

Would this help?
http://www.mckae.com/xia.html


> Anything under way to make this kind of power available in Ada (outside
> of A#)?

All it takes is writing an additional translator into
a number of compilers and provide .NET like objects
for the background processing of queries. :-)