In the Microsoft .NET Framework, XML Literal allows a computer program to include XML directly in the code.
It is currently only supported in VB.NET 9.0 and VB.NET 10.0.
[1] When a Visual Basic expression is embedded in an XML literal, the application creates a LINQ-to-XML object for each literal at run time.
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