thanks
i am getting ready for my retirement at the end of this year. So one of my apps here at the state of Connecticut is being rewritten in c# and sqlserver by a vendor not familiar with VFP
so I did xmltocursor to hand over the date to them

is there a better way??

Peter

>>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!!!!!
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>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.
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>On reverse I use textmerge to produce custom XML back which is again very fast.
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>No XMLDOM, no XML schemas, no XML parsers ;
>And no problem :-)
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>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 .
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>HTH
>Sergio