Christof,

I figured something like that. This has probably been covered many times before but my head is so full details from asp, jscript, vbscript, wconnect, activevfp, xml, wwxml, etc., I guess I can't see the forest for the trees.

So, assuming the server can take an xml query from the client and search a database relatively quick, why use cursortoxml()to begin with?

I can understand using it to set up the client xml query but not the server, specially for large amounts of new/changing data.

Dale


>Hi Dale,
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>>Both FedEx and UPS have xml tracking. They say you can search for tracking #'s up to 365 days old. That is millions or 100's of millions of records. Doing an xml search takes a couple seconds.
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>They have a relational database server running as the backend (Oracle or DB2, maybe). XML is only used to transfer information from the server to the client, not for storage. If you would download those 100 of million records via XML, it would take some time.
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>Christof