>The XMLToCursor() could get slow with more than a hundred records depending on a number of fields.
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>>Why not try it the ".NET" way?
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>>CursorToXML() and XMLToCursor() can blast a cursor or table to a file or memvar (i.e. string) and back again in no time; e.g.
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>>m.foo = ""
>>use MyDbf
>>CursorToXML("MyDbf", "m.foo", 3)
>>XMLToCursor(m.foo, "BOPlenty")
>>browse
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>>Note the use of "output format option 3" (attribute centric XML) which uses around 40% less markup than element centric.

I was using a 200+ record / 130K table and it didn't even blink ... (the resulting XML was 230K ). Smaller than an array using Fabio's numbers.