You may want to try using SAX (Simple Access XML?) rather than the full-blown XML engine. I really don't know how much of a difference will be in memory/speed, but I think SAX is designed for scenarions like the one you are describing.

>Hi all,
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>Reading CODE mag, I found that Markus is returnnig a little piece of XML as response from functions, so an error code, explanation and little more is returned when an error occurs.
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>I like it and I'm thinking on refactoring some of my apps to use the concept.
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>I know how to use the XMLDOM to parse XML files/strings but it seems overkill for that little job, What do you think? Is there a lighter piece of VFP code for parsing simple XML?
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>TIA
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>Agustin