>Yes Barbara, quite right. However, if the data HAS to be sent and updated, a grid is a nice way to display it. The grid itself does not take time. It is the conversion of data from XML to cursor.
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>I did some testing using the conversion classes from Westwind. With the amount of data shown in a normal grid (5 to 10 rows) the speed was good. You could hardly notice it. 200 rows, and I had a real noticeable degradation. I tried a table of 10,000 rows and FoxPro crashed! Three times in a row! (Was running Win98 on a 366MHz with 96 MB RAM.)

I haven't done a lot of conversion with XML myself, but I know it's not a very fast operation. I don't know what a reasonable amount of data is to convert, but 10,000 records seems like an awful lot.