The closes you can get (without doing it yourself) is something like this:

rs.Save "c:\Recordset.xml", adPersistXML

>Hello,
>In my vb.net components, I could return a dataset as an XML string, like so:
>
>

>Return mfproc02DS.GetXml
>

>
>Is there a vb6 equivalent to this command?
>
>Thanks!
>
>MAC