>Rick Strahl did not create these functions....

Perry is probably confusing the VFPCOM CursorToRS with Rick's CursorToADOXML method in wwXML. Interestingly, this method in conjunction with starting a RS object and importing the result is actually faster than the VFPCOM way. Leave it to Rick to write something in VFP that's faster than the same function probably written in C.