Add controls for editing schema bound XML within a LightSwitch app by SAinCA

For entities such as equipment catalogs, XML is the ideal data definition and storage medium as the characteristics of each item, e.g., condensers, compressors, pumps, are so disparate that they demand their own entity type (in a relational model), but can be well defined within an XML schema.

As SQL Server supports the storage, indexing and manipulation of such XML data, it would seem reasonable for LightSwitch to natively support creation/editing/deletion of XML documents with SQL as the underlying repository.

Conversion of XML to a string appears to be all that V1 LS supports, which doesn't appear very useful.

I may well be wrong and LS can support this already, but hours of web searching and LS Help website and forum searching have elicited no relevant content. If it exists, please "do tell". If not, please augment LS at your earliest opportunity as XML is so pervasive.

Thanks for your consideration.