All I am interested at the moment, is simple timing of
CursorToXML() applied on simple cursor with 2500 records and
vice versa back to VFP cursor.

No need going between sessions just if you'd
do something like

select My2500RecCursor
CURSORTOXML ("My2500RecCursor", "SomeVar" , 1, 0, 0, "1")
(found this on wikis)

and then back to empty cursor using XmlToCursor.

How long does it take ?

Thks+++


>>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.
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>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.
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>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]!).
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>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,