title: Does Entity Framework 6.1 support an XML data type natively?
body: <p>Some RDBMSs (including SQL Server) support XML columns. I'd prefer not mapping such a column to the <code>string</code> data type. Does Entity Framework 6.1 support XML natively in any way?</p>
  
  <p>More specifically, can I map an <code>xml</code> column to one of the XML data types of .NET (such as <code>XElement</code> or <code>XmlElement</code>)? Does Entity Framework support XQuery that is integrated into normal LINQ queries and is translated to SQL queries?</p>