>why is xmltocursor so much slower that cursortoxml???
>
>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 have done is to create class which reads XML as text file ( filetostr() ) then breaks it down in segments
from where I take stuff I need. Works very fast. I can read hundreds of XMLs (smaller custom XMLs) in a matter of seconds BUT I am NOT reading entire XML every single segment as to parse entire data set into some other table/cursor, but rather only part of info which is of significance to me.

On reverse I use textmerge to produce custom XML back which is again very fast.

No XMLDOM, no XML schemas, no XML parsers ;
And no problem :-)

I can sent u class code if u r interested. Did not round it up yet into something universally reusable but might be of
use to you as jump start into producing your own custom XML readers / parsers .

HTH
Sergio