Css Zen Garden Creator on MSXAML

Hello,

   Allow me to highlight the blog story titled "Avalon/XAML First Look" by CSS Zen Garden 
creator Dave Shea.

   Dave writes:

  The code itself looks like (well-formed) tag soup from 1997. Whereas the web has seen a 
shift from presentational markup (in the form of tables, embedded attributes like bgcolor, 
and the dreaded font tag) to structural markup with a separated presentation layer (CSS), 
XAML is purely a presentational language. I couldn't see evidence of attention toward 
semantics, and all the presentational attributes are embedded right in the markup. 
Januszewski referenced `a CSS-like syntax', but there's nothing CSS-like about it. It's ugly 
presentational HTML all over again. A sample snippet:

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <Canvas 
       xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/xaml"
       xmlns:def="Definition"
       Width="500" Height="500" Background="White">
       <Canvas.Resources>
         <LinearGradientBrush def:Name="RedGrad" 
           StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="1,1">
            <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops>
               <GradientStopCollection>
                  <GradientStop Color="#FFFFFF" 
                   Offset="0" />
                  <GradientStop Color="#FF0000" 
                   Offset="0.5" />