Kurt,

Thanks for your reply, but it's not actually what I'm looking for, because I want to be able to format the XML to my own needs.
I'll take a look at the Foxpro Advisor article, thanks for mentioning.

Leo
>Leo,
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>Have you looked into using the RecordSet.Save() method. This will save the contents of the recordset to a file, then you can read the file into a string. This should be much faster than manually creating the string, however you won't be able to format the XML to your own needs.
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>loRs.Save('C:\xmldata.xml',1)
>lcXml = FILETOSTR('C:\xmldata.xml')
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>This month's issue of Foxpro Advisor also has an article on speeding up strings with XML by writing large amounts of data out to a file instead of writing to a memory variable, however through my testing, the above method is still much faster.
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>Hope this helps,
>Kurt