When mulling over removing the old 'Expand' mode my thoughts were that it wouldn't be that hard to bring it back in your own custom config builder. It's just a simple string replace in the ProcessRawXml override.
There are still good reasons in non-simple scenarios to avoid doing things in both ProcessRawXml and ProcessConfigurationSection, so Expand mode is still out of favor. But I can see some niche cases where it would be nice to have it back. For those cases, give this just-a-concept-not-fully-supported-sample ExpandWrapper a try.
When mulling over removing the old 'Expand' mode my thoughts were that it wouldn't be that hard to bring it back in your own custom config builder. It's just a simple string replace in the
ProcessRawXmloverride.There are still good reasons in non-simple scenarios to avoid doing things in both
ProcessRawXmlandProcessConfigurationSection, soExpandmode is still out of favor. But I can see some niche cases where it would be nice to have it back. For those cases, give this just-a-concept-not-fully-supported-sample ExpandWrapper a try.