Dragan,

And note that the speed of XML drops squarely with its size. It being a text file, it just has to be parsed; the speed of parsing is beyond our control. So for larger datasets you may actually be better off with a temp table, or a collection of scatter name objects (and the dangling DS should be possible to solve by tablerevert()ing every cursor it has).

Hi. How can a dangling DS happen in the case doing a collection of scatter name objects?

Pardon my ignorance if this is a stupid question.

Thanks!
Dennis