Gemli: Do We Need An XPath-to-Object Mapper?

It dawned on me today that two fundamental problems exist in my day-to-day (and year-to-year) programming activities that haven’t been fairly addressed with all of our innovations in language and tooling improvements, and they are a) the absence of a flexible, late XML-to-object-graph binding mechanism, and b) the absence of an XPath-like query mechanism for CLR object graphs. Right now I want to focus on a) the absence of a flexible, late XML-to-object graph binding mechanism.