Supported Tabular Formats for XML DocumentsThe three main XML tabular-formats that the XML driver can access are described in Table 21-1. In some instances, you may need to define hints to help the XML driver read the tabular-format of an XML document correctly. See “Configure Location Dialog Box Descriptions”.
Table 21-1. Common Tabular Formats for XML Documents These files are identified by a unique schema namespace URL. Although ADO uses the same data types defined by XML-Data, the data types use extensions, such as adding a maximum column width for string columns. ADO 2.5 persisted files are identified by the following unique XML element: This XML format conforms to the W3C recommendation for XML schema, Working Draft April 07, 2000. These files are identified by the following unique XML element (schema namespace URL):<table targetNamespace="http://www.merant.com/namespaces/datadirect/xmlrecordset" xsi:schemaLocation="<http://www.merant.com/namespaces/datadirect/xmlrecordset/EMP.xml>"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:rs="http://www.merant.com/namespaces/datadirect/xmlrecordset"> These islands are identified by the <XML> tag in an HTML document. The Data Island can be embedded in the HTML document. Data Islands can include the following Schema definition and namespace:<Schema xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data"
xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes">