>In VB6, string concatenation is painfully slow, so to build any decent size XML document I use the DOM object to create it before I pass it.
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>With VFP7, should I keep using the string concat or use the DOM? One thing to keep in mind is that my .exe is calling a VFP COM object, so if I use the DOM I will have an additional layer of instantiation..... If that matters.
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>Thanks.


String concat is slow in VFP too. I'd write to a file and read it at once.
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