Hi,

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>>So the documentation (as per the "XML Functions" link from CURSORTOXML()) IS incorrect ?
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>Yes, it has been corrected in VFP9 help. The Character (Binary) is mapped to xs:string. The same as regular Character field.

Mmmm. Pity they didn't change the behaviour to match the documentation rather than vice versa <s>

>>I can think of a few things to try to work around this - but any suggestions as to the simplest working solution ?
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>I would think that memo(binary) would be the simplest.

Worked OK for generating the XML and getting it back into a cursor. Couldn't think of a simple way of getting the 'received' cursor back to it's original structure though. Since I've got control of the client side as well I went with STRCONV(x,13) ---> STRCONV(x,14)

Thanks for the help,
Viv