>why is xmltocursor so much slower that cursortoxml???
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>what can I do to speed it up ???
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>the conversion to xml takes a few seconds, the revers days!!!!!

What I've done in the past to convert large XML files made by CursorToXML is to open the file with the low level file IO, copy the header and footer into strings and then read the file in chunks, use the AT() function to find the last record end marker in the chunk, build a string using the header and footer along with the trimmed chunks, and then XMLToCursor them, remembering to use the flag to make it append the subsequent chunks to the table made by the first one.

While this does make it slower on a small file, the difference is imperceptible, and on a large file it can be orders of magnitude faster.

Ian Simcock.