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These expressions are evaluated
at run time. Embedded expressions are enclosed within <% %> brackets (if you do any ASP.NET
development, you??™re familiar with those).
The following creates a simple XML document using XML literals and an embedded expression:
Dim emp As XElement =
<%= New XElement("Name", "Scott") %>

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Here are the results when the code runs:

Scott

XML literals can span multiple lines without the need of line continuation characters as shown in the
example below. The only time this would differ is when you have a multi-line expression in the
embedded expression.
Dim employee As XElement =

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