As in "too complex for work" or "too complex for work with multidimensional data"?
The first is "too loose to decide" and the second requires OLAP expertise.  OLAP 
is one of those neat technologies that doesn't get much attention in the XML 
world.  I've always considered XML for Analysis a ground breaking and much 
ignored innovation.  Locally, I find when I inquire about it that the SQL practicioners 
want to ignore OLAP as "too hard and we don't really need it".   So one might 
approach this first by enumerating the cases for which OLAP is the simpler 
approach and then the subset of these for which XML For Analysis is the 
simplest approach.
 
len
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From: bryan [mailto:bry@[...].com]

 
> check out the XML for analysis API in the MS SDK
 
does anyone but me think xml for analysis could be dragged kicking and screaming into the re
curring argument about complexity thread? I would be very entertained by reading some high-c
lass ranting against it.