Sure thing, I did it for fun before sending my post, although I used the AddTableSchema using the resulting cursor.

*-- Now it can be added to the XMLAdapter and re-generate XML from it
*-- loXMLAdapter = NEWOBJECT('XMLAdapter') 
*-- loXMLAdapter.AddTableSchema("csurveydata")
*-- x = loXMLAdapter.ToXML("c:\test.xml","",.t.)

But that's not the question being asked, the question is, being the XMLAdapter newer and powerful, how is that it can't handle that document?
Or even better, how to make it work with the XMLAdapter?

>Well, if XMLTOCURSOR works, then you should be able to work backwards, i.e. do a CURSORTOXML then load that into the XmlAdapter.
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>XMLTOCURSOR('file1.xml', 'file1', 512)
>CURSORTOXML("file1", "file2.xml", 2, 512, 0, "1")
>loXml = CREATEOBJECT("XMLADAPTER")
>loXml.LoadXml('file2.xml',.t.,.f.)
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