大家都知道TClientDataSet的Delta属性保存数据集的变化，但是Delta是OleVariant类型的属性，这样如果用Delphi写Webservice，就有需要把它转成XML，特别是其他语言也要用这个Webservice的时候，因为如果Delta能和XML相互转换，Delta包的结构就是透明的了。而TClientDataSet却没有提供DeltaXML这样的属性，之前在网上找了一下，发现网上的都是把Delta赋给另一个TClientDataSet的Data，然后再通过XMLData返回XML，但这样为了一个简单的功能就得多创建一个对象实例，感觉很不好，于是研究一下TClientDataSet的源码，终于完成了Delta与XML相互转换的函数，代码如下：

unit uDelta;

interface

uses DBClient,DSIntf,VarUtils,ActiveX;

function DeltaToXML(Delta:OleVariant):String;
function XMLToDelta(XMLData:String):OleVariant;

implementation

procedure Check(FDSBase:IDSBase;Status: DBResult);
var
ErrMsg: array[0..2048] of Char;
begin
if Status <> 0 then
begin
    FDSBase.GetErrorString(Status, ErrMsg);
    raise EDBClient.Create(ErrMsg, Status);
end;
end;

function DeltaToXML(Delta:OleVariant):String;
var
FDSBase: IDSBase;
DataPacket: TDataPacket;
VarPacket: OleVariant;
begin
CreateDbClientObject(CLSID_DSBase, IDSBase, FDSBase);
SafeArrayCheck(ActiveX.SafeArrayCopy(VarToDataPacket(Delta), DataPacket));
Check(FDSBase,FDSBase.AppendData(DataPacket, True));
FDSBase.SetProp(dspropXML_STREAMMODE, xmlON);
Check(FDSBase,FDSBase.StreamDS(DataPacket));
DataPacketToVariant(DataPacket, VarPacket);
Result := VariantArrayToString(VarPacket);
//FreeDataPacket(DataPacket);
end;

function XMLToDelta(XMLData:String):OleVariant;
var Delta:OleVariant;
    DataPacket: TDataPacket;
    FDSBase: IDSBase;
begin
Delta:=StringToVariantArray(XMLData);
SafeArrayCheck(SafeArrayCopy(VarToDataPacket(Delta), DataPacket));
CreateDbClientObject(CLSID_DSBase, IDSBase, FDSBase);
Check(FDSBase,FDSBase.AppendData(DataPacket, True));
FDSBase.SetProp(dspropXML_STREAMMODE, xmlOFF);
Check(FDSBase,FDSBase.StreamDS(DataPacket));
DataPacketToVariant(DataPacket, Result);
//FreeDataPacket(DataPacket);
end;

end.