Even better, these examples show how to pass XML data to stored procedures, and how they can be made to read single or multiple sets of criteria easily, using only a few lines of TSQL.

I want to open an XML file and input it's contents into an Access 2003 database. I know I can import XML files using Access, but I don't want to do this through the GUI one at a time. I want to ...

That's where the Perl module called XML::Simple comes in. It takes away the drudgery of parsing XML data, making the process easier than you ever thought possible.