Hi Michelle.

>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.

I've run into the same problem. The issue is that XMLTOCURSOR() uses the XMLDOM for parsing, which is pretty slow for large documents. When I mentioned this to Erik Moore at the MVP Summit this past weekend, he suggested looking at the SAX parser, which doesn't load an entire document but instead fires events as it hits each node. I haven't had a chance to look into this yet, but will post something once I do.

Doug