ADO is a COM component. It provides more than a mechanism to pass data. For example, you sort, filter, seek, navigate, insert, update, and delete data while it is in the ADO record set.

XML is simply a text file for passing data. It provides no methods to operate on the data.


>XML and ADO seem to do the same thing. They both provide containers to pass data to the client. If the solution does not require a shared 'cursor', then is XML the guy?
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>What are the advantages to using either protocol?
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>Thanks
>Terry