XML and Oracle drives me crazy in general. You wind up with neither a relational model nor a generally useful way of data storage/exchange. I am almost always

XML and Oracle drives me crazy in general. You wind up with neither a relational model nor a generally useful way of data storage/exchange. I am almost always working with legacy schemas, many generated by long-extinct tools or developers, and being a genuinely curious person, wandering down strange code paths to see if I can satisfy random reporting requests.