I believe the MDAC 2.6 and above can return XML as an ADO recordset, you might want to check into it http://www.microsoft.com/data sgd -- work: http://ti3.com/ non: http://thinksafely.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Kogler [mailto:ken.kogler at curf.edu] > > Is there a quick and dirty way to convert an XML file into a > recordset?