David, so do we have a bad implementation of the function XMLToCursor()?, who can resolve this?. It's almost imposible to have an exponential function with performance penalty. The ADO funcion works as I expect XMLToCursor() should work. Of course I could use the ADO recordset, but, is it absolutely neccesary?

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)!

>df - Microsoft MVP, MCP

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