Thanks Sergey, it worked perfectly.

Aloha,

James

>You can extract schema from XML and use it to create empty cursor.

>lcXmlFile = "Whatever.xml"
>lcXmlSchema = STREXTRACT(FILETOSTR(lcXmlFile), "", "</xsd:schema>",1,4) + "</VFPData>"
>? XMLTOCURSOR(lcXmlSchema,"crsXml")
>

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>>I have an XML file that has the XSD schema in the beginning of the file. The file is created with the CursorToXML() function.
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>>Is there anyway for me to get a blank cursor using that embedded schema without loading the entire file.