11.5. DataView
One of the coolest controls in this release is the new DataView control. DataView allows you to easily define a template that can be bound to various types of data or services. WPF/Silverlight developers might notice some similarity with the binding syntax.
11.5.1. XHTML-Compliant?
Microsoft wants you to know that it has made great efforts to ensure that declarative binding is XHTML-compliant. I'm not sure this is strictly true, but you will see a very clean way of performing it. Sebastian Lambla has a lengthy post on this subject (note that Sebastian would have been using a previous version of the AJAX libraries when this post was written): http://serialseb.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-how-many-ways-can-microsoft-ajax-4.html.
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