CS5 vs CS3 with XML

We're on the cusp of switching from CS3 to CS5 and just received a request to do layout from XML files.
I know very little of XML and how to deal with it in InD and will be doing a crash course over the next two weeks, I'm also far more familiar with CS3 both (layout and scripting) than CS5.
Are there any worth while advantages to working with the XML in CS5 over CS3?
Many thanks,
Ken

We have an existing set of sample pages for a series. The client is trying to find the best way to get the back list of the series to the web as well as prepared for traditional book printing and are testing some things, one of which is having the content created and tagged in XML and trying to use that for both getting the product to the web and prepared in InDesign for printing.
So, we have an existing InDesign file that should have all the styles to lay the books out and newly created XML files that we have to import into InDesign.
I'm going to try looking in to the evaluateXPathExpression and try to determine how helpful it might be. Maybe that will make it worth moving to CS5 ASAP.
The looking I've done over the last couple of days has pretty much confirmed your initial assessment of a "world of hurt." Oy.
Thanks,
Ken

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