>Christof,
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>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.
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>So, assuming the server can take an xml query from the client and search a database relatively quick, why use cursortoxml()to begin with?
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>I can understand using it to set up the client xml query but not the server, specially for large amounts of new/changing data.

I think you're mistaking the role that XML plays in their system; it's a transport layer between tiers, not an internal data representation.