>Hi All:
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>I have discovered you can pass XML strings back and forth from a web page script to a VFP COM object using RDS. Then you can use the XML DOM on either side to parse out the data for populating controls or converting back to a cursor. I have tried it and it works. Does anyone see any problems with this? I know RDS was created to work with recordsets, but this seems like a cool solution because you can take advantage of VFP's powerful local data engine to build XML stings.
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>Charlie

Its also possible to bind directly to the XML. You can navigate through the XML as opposed to navigating through RDS or ADO. It means you can bypass the step of translating the XML into a cursor on the client side. I don't know how how the performance compares to navigating through an ADO or RDS record set, but once the XML object is cached, it should be reasonable.