Erik,

Thanks. You pretty much echoed what I've been hearing from other folks. At the So. Cal. show, I heard some people question the validity of XML to a degree I didn't understand. I've worked on enough data conversions that I can see how XML would make everyone's life a million times easier.

PF
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>IMHO, ADO is a great way to get at data through an object model, but that's it. It doesn't give us too much that we don't already have with ODBC/OLEDB. It is/was MS' marketing baby.
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>XML is something completely different. ADO, while being currently trumpeted by MS marketing, could someday go the way of RDS. But there are a lot more companies betting a heck of a lot more on XML. XML, IMHO, is the most exciting thing to come our way for sometime. Pick up a copy of INfo week and count from cover to cover how many articles mention company's current efforts involving XML. It's not just hype- people are getting things done that wouldn't have been practical or possible before XML.