>I have a cursor with 8000 records. When I execute:
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>CURSORTOXML(ALIAS(),'lcHtml',1,48,0,'1')
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>it is executed in a flash. But, when I do the reverse:
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>XMLTOCURSOR(lcHtml,'TempCursor')
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>It takes extremely long. How can I speed that up? Right now, it takes about 2 seconds for the first code and about 2 minutes for the second.

Michel,
If it's not a must to use element centric try attribute centric.

CURSORTOXML(ALIAS(),'lcHtml',2,48,0,'1')

Cetin