>Why the function XMLTOCURSOR() it's so slow ?
>If the xml string is little it's seem fast but as soon the XML string grows the function becomes very very slow.
>An example : XML string of 5mb == 20 minutes to convert in a cursor (in a local computer).
>I know that FOX read the string two times but it seems however still too much slow.
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>I forgot: CURSORTOXML(), instead, it's very fast

One way to speed things up is to provide a schema (in fact, this should always be the case to prevent wrong assumptions over data types). XML parsing of files that large will always be a slow process, I think.