16.5. Summary
The size of the XML portion of SQL Server has grown considerably since its original introduction as a "Web release" prior to SQL Server 2000, and it continues to grow. XML is one of the most important technologies to hit the industry in the last 20 or more years. It provides a flexible, very transportable way of describing data, and SQL Server now has more and more ways of meeting your XML needs.
In this chapter, we've taken a look at how to get relational data into XML format, and how to get XML data into a relational structure. We've also seen how SQL Server can supply Web service data directly using XML-based methods.
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