>Doubtful. VFP's internal XML parsing is blazing fast. I'm not sure if they're using MSXML or not internally, but if they are they are low level early binding to it, which will be much faster than anything we can do with the late bound MSXML objects.

Internally, XMLTOCURSOR uses MSXML, and CURSORTOXML parses it itself (at least I think it does; haven't actually looked at the code myself). This is would partially explain the speed difference between the two functions.