Defining XML Views
XDR isn't the most pleasant language to work with when coding by hand. And once you have defined an XDR schema, you're not finished defining your XML view. You still have to annotate it in order to map the XDR schema to the relational schema. In addition, it is possible that XDR may not become an approved W3C standard. While no one can say for sure, Microsoft may drop support for XDR in favor of the XML Schema standard.
To help save you time both learning XDR and applying it, I'm going to show you two things that will help you define XML views more productively with less XDR coding. First, I'll demonstrate a SQL query trick that you can use to generate part or all of an XDR schema automatically. Then I'll show you the XML View ...
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