Detente? Isn't that the name of an old radiology system from Siemens? ;-)
I'm going to try your technique for a little task... except it isn't so little. Realistically, what sort of cursor size do you think you can realistically pass as xml before you'd be better creating a lookup table/cursor as a separate process?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
