Alexander,

>My results (on P3-600):
>

>    n CursorToXml  XmlToCursor
>        VFP   ADO    VFP   ADO
> 1000 0.040 0.130  0.491 0.160
> 2000 0.070 0.270  1.572 0.281
> 4000 0.150 0.521  5.808 0.581
>10000 0.371 1.412 92.513 1.472
>

>Not very bad, isn't it?

It's great that using ADO we can parse it back to a cursor in O(n) and not O(n^2)!