>>>Just glanced that article and I think it is much easier to use XmlDataAdapter class and XmlAdapter doesn't have an activex dependency.
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>>Not ActiveX but still a COM object - .IXMLDOMElement becomes a XML DOM object when you start using it. Initially it's null.
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>Hmm I always thought Activex and COM as interchangeable names.

There's some packaging involved with ActiveX whereas COM is more general - any app _can_ have a COM interface, while AX _must_ be COM. Generally, ActiveX is a component communicating with the host app via COM but can't operate standalone. So in this sense XML DOM actually is an ActiveX as it doesn't exist as a standalone app.