According to the demonstration at the last VFP devcon, VFP 70 is using XMLDOM for XML to cursor but using internal string processing for cursortoxml. There was a marked difference in performance between the two. It was explained away as being the speed limit of XMLDOM.

Glenn

>>>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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>>You could probably write something faster fairly easily depending on the complexity of your exception information. But I usually don't hesitate to use the parser even for small stuff because it's pretty fast to instantiate and to load a small document. Unless your small documents are being loaded in a tight loop (their not in your situation), I wouldn't worry about overhead.
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>Thank you Erik, now, pure curiosity, do you know if VFP7 is internally using internally using for XMLTOCURSOR()?