What is a Disconnected Recordset?

A Disconnected Recordset is A recordset object that exists in an application, but does not have an associated data connection associated with it.

Why use a Disconnected Recordset?

The ADO Recordset is considered an extremely “rich object model” which means it provides more functionality than say, an array.
Also, you can load XML into a disconnected recordset, which means that there is no difference in your RS than if you hit a database.

How to code a Disconnected Recordset?

Here is an example of putting data from XML into a recordser, a disconnected recordset to be exact.

Const adVarChar = 200
Const adSingle = 4
Const adPersistxml = 1
Const adUseClient = 3
Const adOpenStatic = 3
Const adLockBatchOptimistic = 4
Const adStateOpen = 1

Public Function fGetXmlForRs(strFieldsCsv, intFieldLen)
	Dim objRs, arrFields, intCount, objXmlDom, objXmlRows, objXmlRow, objXmlColumns, objXmlColumn

	Set objRs  = CreateObject("ADODB.recordset") 'create disc. rs
	Set objXmlDom = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")

	objXmlDom.LoadXML "YOUR_XML_HERE" 

	arrFields = split(replace(strFieldsCsv," ",""),",")
	For intCount = 0 To uBound(arrFields)
		objRs.Fields.Append arrFields(intCount), adVarChar, intFieldLen  'fieldname, type, size
	Next
	objRs.Open , , adOpenStatic, adLockBatchOptimistic

	Set objXmlRows = objXmlDom.selectNodes("YOUR_ROW_NODE_HERE")
	For Each objXmlRow In objXmlRows  'for each row
		intCount = 0
		set objXmlColumns = objXmlRow.selectNodes("col")
		objRs.AddNew()
		For Each objXmlColumn In objXmlColumns
			objRsLocal (arrRequestedFields(intCountCol)).value = objXmlColumn.text
			intCount = intCount + 1
		Next
		objRs.Update()
	Next		

	Set objXmlDom = Nothing
	Set fGetRntRs = objRs
	Set objRs .ActiveConnection = Nothing
End function

To use the XML to Recordset function, just call this:

Set yourNewRs = fGetXmlForRs("field1name, field2name, etc", 255)

do while not yourNewRs.eof....