And now to substantiate the most obscure title ever...

Say you have an ADODB XML packet, i.e. ASP's "short" default version of the XML recordset for a query executed through the ADODB/ADO facility. In sum, this XML is horribly inefficient because of the recordset's schema in present in EVERY SINGLE ADO XML packet. This XML format is similar to a proprietary SOAP XML packet - which again is a horribly bloated format.

Say we have a 3rd party API that utilizes the ADO recordset as it's return string. And we're using a programming language to capture said record set that is not ASP or a language that can natively utilize the ADODB facility - even if it's through COM Services. ADODB is usable through COM Services - but testing with several languages instantiating an ADO COM Object and seeing how much trouble is with conversion of even simple data types - this method is not eligible even in the development environment.

Since there is a bit of overhead involved with the utilization of a ADO object in any language that doesn't natively support the ADO facility - I use XSLT to transform the "simple" ADO XML into a WDDX packet.

I must disclaim that I've tested this XSLT with ColdFusion and the "simple" ADO XML recordset for simple MSSQL select query results. For instance it XSLT translates the "r:data" section of the ADO XML into a simple "hash" aka "associative array" aka "struct".

Here's the first proof-of-concept .XSL file I created - which works rather well:

<xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:for-each select="*/*">
			<xsl:if test="contains(name(), 'data')">
<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><array length='1'>
			<xsl:for-each select="*">
<struct>
				<xsl:if test="contains(name(), 'row')">
					<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<var name='{name()}'>
<string>

						<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</string>
</var>
					</xsl:for-each>
				</xsl:if>
</struct>
			</xsl:for-each>
</array></data></wddxPacket>
			</xsl:if>
		</xsl:for-each>

	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>