• Geoff A (1/3/2011)


    This is great info. Thanks Wayne.

    what do you think about making ALL x.data.values to be VARCHAR in the event that the XML is not well formatted?

    For a standard way of doing things, I would not be in favour of doing that. Plus, it's not really XML if it's not well-formed, is it?

    Wayne
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