Combining Avalon & XML Databases
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Recently I've think about trying out some of the cool things that Avalon lets you do.

I'm not a UI programmer (never mind what other people are trying to tell me :-) ), but the things you can do there are so impressive that I really itch to do something with them. The interesting part comes when you throw an XML database into the deal, since using XQuery and friends you may be able to generate the UI in the query level, so you could probably create a lot of interesting stuff just by playing with the data.

I've no idea if Avalon has the ability to generate the UI on runtime, or if it needs a compilation step like ASP.Net (I would tend to think so, but I really don't know any thing about it except that it looks cool). But if it can (and even if it can't) that should be a really cool project.

The Berkley DB XML is a free XML DB that looks nices, and it has .Net API (but not a free one). I'm thinking of buying a book about Avalon and writing some sample applications. And recommendations about that?

Anyone can comment about the general idea?

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