> Why not IMAGE? as long as you have the ODBC, you
> could parse the IMAGE Data to XML/XSL.

I don't see ODBC as a requirement here. If I'm not totally down the
garden path, it should not be very complex to modify a plain program
that reads IMAGE data and outputs the results by DISPLAY or writing
to a file, to add a few XML tags around the data fields, forming an
XML data stream as a result.

Something in the line of...

  DISPLAY first-name.
  DISPLAY last-name.

mutating into...

  DISPLAY "<person>".
  DISPLAY "<firstName>" first-name "</firstName>".
  DISPLAY "<lastName>"  last-name  "</lastName>".
  DISPLAY "</person>".

Lars (ok, maybe I'm missing something important here)