If you look at the raw XML of my RSS feed, you'll notice that the "tag" comments for each post are stored as repeated <category> elements directly below each <item> element:

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When designing the object model for a "BlogEntry" class, I might want to represent these <category> values as a sub-collection of strings.  For example, using a "Tags" property that is a generic list of type string:

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You might be wondering - how do we take a flat collection of <category> elements under <item> and transform them into a nested sub-collection of strings?  The nice thing about LINQ is that it makes this type of scenario easy by allowing us to use nested LINQ query expressions like so:

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This "shaping" power of LINQ, and its ability to take flat data structures and make them hierarchical (and take hierarchical data structures and make them flat) is super powerful.  You can use this feature with any type of data source - regardless of whether it is XML, SQL, or plain old objects/arrays/collections.