>not a solution, but played around with xml just to see how it works, etc. i used West Winds XML library, because i work with Vfp 6. i had some serious memory problems and was told by the fox community here that xml is supposed to be for small record sets.
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>as you can tell, i don't realy know too much about architecture, etc of xml, but i thought the tread i was discussing my problem helps a little.

It is still of a surprise that the CURSORTOXML() process is fast and that XMLTOCURSOR() is extremely slow for the same dataset.

I'll check the thread you mentioned.