I need to pass data from a cursor from one object to another, so I decided to check out XML. It seemed like a perfect fit until I ran it and saw how slow it is.

This line:
lnNumRecs = XMLTOCURSOR(tcDataString, "tc_addrs")

takes 98 seconds on my Celeron 600 with about 4800 records. Each record has 12 fields. This is way too slow for my needs. Since I'm new to XML, I thought maybe I was just missing a way to optimize it. Is it normal to take this long? Creating the XML from the cursor only takes half a second. What am I missing?

Thanks,

Michelle