>Any real life timing for this wld do. I am not trying to prove any points, just being curious about XmlToCursor, since I still use VFP6.

You can still work with the "real" XML container - DOMDocument. You might find it better for both your projects and "design" contemplation to work with that guy.

Some XML is "hierarchial" (manifests) - that kind of data cannot be addressed with 2Cursor. The tabular data would be very easy . You could even use XML as a database (with a record pointer and a seek [X-Path]!).

The task of creating an XML with VFP is a simple string assembly. Looking at the XML with DOM Document is almost as simple - you can scope and parse out what you want. Addressing it into or out of a DBF using DOM Document is not that difficult - and - you can drive the DOM and expeiment from inside the command window,