In a discussion thread, a response may seem vague and ill-directed unless the thread is followed in its entirety. Moreover, nickmalik's article was written in...
I believe most of the replies given to my criticisms were in agreement, mostly, with the notion of NOT storing multi-valued attributes within a single field...
Bottom line...XML support provided by SQL DBMS's, I could care less. If developers want to struggle with the syntax of some FOR XML clause, who care's? If that...