Ah, yes... and to add insult to injury, if the dates and times were actually in a standard format, the delimited file would only contain 28 million bytes... that's only 1/6th the IO and pipe load of the XML.
That's just insane to me and I don't understand the draw that people have towards XML for such "flat" data transmission.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.