Sorry for the cross-post, but I wasn't sure where this should go. I have a large XML file (about 7.5Gb) that is composed of about 17 million individual records. I have successfully loaded these records as individual XML records into a table with 17M rows. However, I looked around a bit and noticed that there are at least a couple of XML schemas that have been available in the past (but don't look like they are currently maintained) that enable XPATH queries directly on the schema. Is the current XML datatype (in 8.3) the direction of the future, or is something more akin to a dedicated XML schema (I think this is the route that Oracle has gone) going to be important? Thanks, Sean ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly