I know in 2005.1 it supports SQL 2005 xml column datatype. But does it support creating predicates that search those column? I didnt read anything in the manual about it, so im going to assume no. But i figured i would ask as maybe im missing something.

An Xml type maps to a string type. No XQuery predicates are produced if that was your question

Yes that answers my question

Are you planning on supporting this at all in the future?

So this brings me to my next question. Is it possible to tack on some sql to a predicate?

For instance, lets say i got a xml column in a table and i create a predicate to find rows with id 1, 2 and 3 which i can do with llblgen predicates. But i also want to create a predicate for searching in an XML column. I Could do this by tacking on a sql string to the llbgen created predicate expression. Is this possible?

It is, you can write your own IPredicate implementation and emit the XQuery statements If you use a field compare value style predicate, just give it the same enum value as the fieldcomparevalue predicate. See the fieldcomparevaluepredicate sourcecode.

Wonderful!

Thanks for the help!