Client-Side Conversion
The most rapid (and least flexible) way to integrate XML into an existing system is through the use of a client-side XML driver. This can be done either by using an XML-enabled database API provider or by inserting an extra component between the client application and the database API provider. Figure 9.2 shows how a relational-data-to-XML mapping layer could be added to an existing system.
Figure 9.2. Adding a client-side conversion layer.
For example, Microsoft's ADO library contains native support for serializing a query's result set into XML. The resulting XML data can then be programmatically manipulated using XML APIs ...
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