I'm using Entity Framework 4.0 within a repository pattern to populate my POCO objects which are in another assembly. One of my objects contains an XML column from the database (a string type on the class).
Unfortunately, this XML string contains primary key IDs that I need to THEN use to retrieve other objects (with the repository) to build another custom object. I've been trying to do this using a custom get accessor on the domain object that tries to parse the XML and then go fetch from the repository. The problem is that this results in my model requiring the repository and gives me a circular dependency.
Is there any good way to do something like this? Perhaps some custom code to parse the XML column within the EF repository layer and map what I need to on a custom object in my model??
Any responses are greatly appreciated, thank you!
