IFS good for BLOB but for structured data ...

Question

Hello,
After evaluating IFS for 1.5 month, we realized that we cannot really
use IFS to store our XML files in a structured manner. Please tell me if
I am wrong about the following assumption.
Every time you have multiple EMBEDDED elements in an XML (which happens
all the time) you have to create a Custom Class for each element and use
Compound Documents.
My XML sample
<instance ref="sample">
<table ref="sampleTable1">
<record>
<property ref="myprop1">hello</property>
In an Instance I have many Tables, In a Table I have many Records, in a Record many properties (a basic application).
In IFS, I have to create 4 CustomClass, that will contain ATTRIBUTS of type PublicObject_Arrays to contain my other Custom class. This Will get pretty big if you think that each PublicObject have by default 16 ATTRIBUTS !!!
If there is no other way, we will have to store the XML as a Blob and use InterMedia to index our Structured data. Any suggestion?
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Answer 1

I was down this path a few months ago. One alternative raised was that we don't use the default parser, but instead implement a custom parser. The main issue I ran into was that the default parser could not parse the 'currency' portion of the following xml:
<amount currency='USD'>99.12</amount>
It would parse the 99.12 into a column named amount.
You may want to search for that thread.
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