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> > What would be the consequences to XML datatypes in relational > databases should an XML binary standard be created? > None, I would have thought. I wouldn't expect an RDB to represent XML data internally using either the standard ("XML") serialization or any standard binary serialization, I would expect it to use its own internal representation. Thus the fact that there's more than one standardized external representation shouldn't matter one iota: provided of course that the representations are truly equivalent. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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