Hi Michelle

Are you using VFP6 or VFP7?

The inplementation in VFP7 was quoted as being dranatically faster in VFP7 at one of the Devcons.

Geoff

>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.
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>This line:
>lnNumRecs = XMLTOCURSOR(tcDataString, "tc_addrs")
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>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?
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle