>Dragan,
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>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).
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>Hi. How can a dangling DS happen in the case doing a collection of scatter name objects?
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>Pardon my ignorance if this is a stupid question.

Never happened to me that it could prove the scatter caused anything. Just mentioned it because others (Tamar, I think) said it's possible.