>hi There,
>
>we have an application that reads in some XML files
>using the Microsoft DOM (MSXML2). In our program
>we step through every node and write the data for
>each node to a fox table.
>
>This works fine but takes very long time to complete!
>The XML input files are 20 to 40 Megabytes big, processing
>these files takes about 11 hours!
>
>Can anybody help me with;
>
>1) Is there a faster solution to import XML files into foxpro?
> --> The XML input files contain three or four levels, importing
> them with CURSORTOXML does not work because the output is a
> foxpro cursor with only the first level in fields and the rest
> foxpro puts into a memo field.
>
>2) is there any other solution to import XML in foxpro?
>
>3) is there a way to spead-up XML DOM?
>
>4) Any other suggestions?
>
>Hope anybody can help!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Erwin

Erwin,
If you've VFP8 (or for one time job download VFP9 beta) and XML was created with .NET ( a .NET dataset ) then XmlAdapter class can read and save it into multiple related tables.
PS: Never compared to XMLDOM speed.
Cetin