>... the right way would probably be to write a SAX handler rather than going through the DOM.
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>XMLAdapter is supposed to be a lot faster than XMLToCursor() (I haven't personally tested) I don't know whether they used SAX or just did the string handling manually).

It looks like SAX makes a lot a sense when it comes to load big quantities of data as is basically scans thru to the xml stream looking for tags to handle. No need to feed a big DOM tree into ram...

I'm currently investigating SAX for an application. Are there pointers on SAX resources for VFP?

François