Hi Cetin,
Pardon my ignorance but instead of continually updating (adding to) a string memory variable could extracting the data to a temp cursor first and then using cursortoxml() be faster?
>Hi Walter,
>I tried your version and with repeated calls it has timing around 17-26 secs.
>My test is very simple. TestCursor is a simple cursor with few fields of different datatypes and 200K recs. Select into part just selects all records (no filter clause where VFP would show itself more).
>VFP's being interpreted seems to be as a disadvantage at first but after .NET I doubt if interpreting is a bad way or not :)
>Cetin
>
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