At 02:53 PM 4/16/03 -0400, Paul Schmidt wrote:

>That's what Firebird does, it stores data. XML can be, and should be limited
>to being either a source for data, or a destination for extracted data, in
>other words your populating an XML document with database data. So the
>question becomes should that be done within the engine, or within the client,
>and is the benefit of doing it within the engine worth the cost of doing so.

Well said, sir. That is indeed the question.

Jim Starkey