>Can anyone point me towards examples of how to use an XMLAdapter with an external Schema to convert from cursors to XML?
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>Many thanks,
> Nick

In addition to Sergey's advice, you might want to understand DOM outside the VFP "context" (CA and X2C).
There's some code that will DBF to XML and XML to DBF w/o CA or X2C in these messages:
Main program in message #1086916
Performance fix in message #1086938 (error handler call)
Performance fix in message #1087429 (speed)