>>No, it wouldn't be simple and it is not on the Europa feature list plans. The feature set of Europa is locked down and set in place. Whidbey will be more integrated and feature rich for Yukon solutions since it is targeting Yukon.
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>Bummer. Do you know if classic ADO will support the XML data type?

No. Even classic ASP.NET won't (.NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1), you will need Windows Framework 2.0 which will be released when Whidbey is released.