I've found a web page that contains some examples of the use of the features in the proposed SQL/XML standard (as implemented by Oracle). This should give us some ideas about what to aim for.
http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xmldb/htdocs/sql_xml_codeexamples.html The third example converts a query result to an XML document. (Notice that they do not do this at the protocol level.) The other examples process XML data within SQL using XPath/XQuery-type operations. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster