That's exactly why I found it a bit distracting to have a whole section called 'Transform the XML document's attributes into elements' in the middle of an otherwise interesting article; While the transform stuff is interesting in its own right; it's a *bit* off-topic and didn't really help explain 'XML Shredding', which was the core of your article.

I'm looking forward to the next installment... I have some XML transforming stuff I do at a particular customer using Task Manager, I'm interested to see if there'll be any merit in using SSIS instead 🙂

/Ryan