Speculation about Microsoft's mysterious X#
builder.com | at | by Mike
Initially, a number of people within the XML community assumed that X# would be an alternative to the W3Cs XSLT transformation language, used widely to convert XML into HTML or different XML formats. However, this appears unlikely given Microsoft's emphasis on imperative programming models on the .NET platform. Moreover, the need for such an alternative transformation language doesn't really exist-the core audience for XSLT, a rich but admittedly complex language to learn for most programmers, has stayed fairly small compared to the number of .NET developers.