XML ADO ADO.NET and Recordsets

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HelloWe're using ADO in our Data Tier, but passing data to the Business Tier asstrings of XML.Although the ADO produced XML is a bit verbose we were going to stick withthat - as we (naively) thought that ADO.NET would use pretty much the same.The more I look at the XML ADO produces the more I think it's not reallywhat we want. Since we don't want to have to change our other tiers whenwe change to ADO.NET or another database technology we're now looking atproducing our own XML from the recordsets.I suppose my questions are:1) How different is the XML ADO.NET produces?2) Is there an official open standard or, such like, for representing recordsets(just the data in them - not info about the type of recordset etc).Thanks for any helpPhill