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   From: michael.d.long-nospam@comcast.net   
      
   And I thought I was the only person on the planet that sees anything wrong   
   with XML.  The first time I saw an article espousing the benefits of this   
   great new tool (some idiot calling it the "new ASCII" - doh!) all I could   
   see was a bloated pig of a format that looked like it spewed forth from the   
   mind of a juvenile delinquent.  That it has made its way into the DBMS   
   engines shows that people have more computing resources than they have good   
   sense.   
      
   --   
   Michael D. Long   
      
      
   "robert"  wrote in message   
   news:da3c2186.0408300407.3eeb365d@posting.google.com...   
   > Hans Forbrich  wrote in message   
   > news:...   
   > ...Sybase sold their soul to Microsoft by   
   >> giving them what is now SQL Server.   
   >>   
   >   
   > and all of them, near as i can tell, have sold their souls to   
   > XML Data Storage, thus eviscerating the relational model, and   
   > taking us back to IMS.  i hope they're all Real Proud of themselves.   
   >   
   > annoyed and distraught,   
   > robert   
      
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