Whoa Cowboy!
Reason being that these XML can change frequently
Doesn't that imply that your underlying DB structure would change "frequently" also?
I don't to create respective hbm files
Who uses those anymore? Annotations are the way to go.
I know DB2 does, not sure about M$ SQL Server, but you might want to look into native XML support
embedded or provided by the database provider itself.
WP