David Stevenson wrote:

> Of course, you could just STRTRAN the XML instead. :-)

Yep, I thought abount that but it sounds an awfully inefficient solution, writing these tags thousands of times and then going through and replacing each and every one of them. Then, of course, there is the problem of what happens if the data contains the same text as one of the field names!

No, I much prefer your renaming the XMLField solution if it doesn't throw up any problems, I will start working on that now and will let you know how I get on.

Thanks for your suggestion.
Nick