I don't remember if we talked about the possibility to have a XML stream as
output for Firebird
The idea is an option so Firebird retrieve data directly in a XML stream
Perhaps something like in SQL Server 2000 :
* Retrieve XML data using the SELECT statement and the FOR XML clause.

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