
One of the chief problems with DTS having XML support is that the SQL2000 support for XML, in the form of language enhancements to the Transact SQL for two way traffic between XML and relational data works well; however, it is not adequate for handling the traffic in the DTS context. The main reason is that the XML that is returned by the forXml clause comes out with characters that are not parsed by the XML parser. We will see some aspects of this in the tutorial. It is possible to recover the XML that is processed by DTS, but may require some post processing. An elegant, purely ActiveX script based answer gleaned from an Internet link is ..
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