>Translating the XML into a cursor on the client side?
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>I'm talking IE5 on the client side. You can bind directly to the XML DSO.
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>I need to know if there are any limitations to using RDS to pass XML stings back and forth because it was meant for ADO RS's, but works with XML strings as well. Calling methods on a COM object directly from a web page seems almost to good to be true.

Check out the following demo on my Web site:

http://www.west-wind.com/wconnect/httpcom.asp

This thing actually uses XML (not an ActiveX control) to call a COM object on the back end server. The demo is a little limited to disallow just any object access for obvious security reasons (which unlike RDS' data object is fully configurable BTW).

This opens up a whole new way of doing things and does not require MS tools on the client, although currently IE5's XML parser is by far the easiest way to do this.

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