Although putting the XML into a text field is still a common 
technique.  Doc mgt on the cheap.
We use 
HTML for templates in Notes fields.  It is easy and the user can modify 
it 
without too much effort or depth.
 

OTOH, 
grandfathering HTML is still haunting us for reasons we all know 
about.
 
Where 
markup goes wrong in these situations is that it is all too easy for the user or 
an 
XML-unaware process to muck it up with the usual results (a 
downstream processor halts 
and catches fire). 
 
Have 
you ever tried to show XML comments in Powerpoint?  OpenDoc's 
best assault on Office will 
be 
proper handling and display of XML constructs.
 
len

  
From: Anne Thomas Manes 
  [mailto:atmanes@g...]
Perhaps "storage" is the wrong 
  word, because it implies persistence to some type of data store, but the basic 
  concept is valid. Either the XML is persistent or it is transient. If the XML 
  is persistent, then the application works directly on the XML. If the XML is 
  transient, then the XML is transformed into some other format (language 
  objects, relational database, etc.) that the application works with.