>This is not the first time the use of XML instead of OLE DB is discussed. They are not disparate as you may think. For example, several people have been using XML strings instead of ADO recordsets for a long time now.
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>The new concept, or at least to me, is that now MS is openly promoting the use of XML instead of OLE DB. You don't see MS disaccrediting its own technologies quite often.
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Hector,

I think you're confusing a few things. ADO is not OLE DB. ADO is a wrapper around OLE DB. C++ programmers can access OLE DB directly and never do anything with ADO. OLE DB is the data access technology. ADO and XML are data transport technologies.