>Thanks Sergey,
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>Your repsonse is above and beyond my expectations. I sensed I might have to parse it with code similar to what you have returned to me (yours is more elegant than mine would have been), but I wanted to avoid coding where the built in tools might have been more efficient.
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>Thanks again!
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>Andrew
>
Hi Andrew,

The XMLTOCURSOR() and XMLADAPTER internaly use MS XMLDOM which is kind of slow so VFP code may be more efficient for simple XML parsing.