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[Trent Nelson <trent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/20/2010 11:37 AM, Nasser Dassi wrote:
> Gotta love strict OOP.
>
> Not touching ANY of the data (i.e. passing XML between front-end and
> back-end) is most recommended in this day and age -- as SQL Server 2008
> natively supports XML data type.
>
> ... and I have experience doing that cuz I hate having a middle layer do
> anything to data (besides wrap some security around it and its
> transmission).

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think we can avoid the need 
to build an intermediate, programmatic representation of the data and 
metadata.  From what I can tell, the logic in DataServiceProvider that 
parses the OData query strings operates against an in-memory model, as 
opposed to, say, applying XSLT transformations.

I mean, we could obviously write something to do it any way we wish, but 
the intent behind this thread was to see how much OData stuff is already 
out there that we can leverage before we need to start re-implementing 
things ourselves.

	Trent.