Transcription: If you currently work with database servers like SQL Server, Oracle, or mainframe database servers like IMS or CICS, you know firsthand how much fun it is to migrate data from disparate database systems, say SQL Server to IMS or IMS to SQL Server, especially when they don't even share a database model. You're talking about hierarchical model versus relational model. Data migration has always been a difficult issue, but XML really makes that much easier. It doesn't make it simple, but it does make the task much less difficult.