I have stored XML in Oracle XMLType columns off and on as part of a reporting/data warehouse infrastructure with some success. It is a really cheap way of addi

I have stored XML in Oracle XMLType columns off and on as part of a reporting/data warehouse infrastructure with some success. It is a really cheap way of adding in XML data documents that are small-ish and infrequently used. We typically extract a field or two from the XML doc. I wouldn't do it for really big XML docs (for some definition of really big) but it is handy for thousands of little XML docs.