Hi Craig,

have you tried to filter out the unsafe characters with chrtran?

xmltocursor(chrtran(filetostr("myTemp.xml"),'xzy',''),'myCursor',0)

>>Craig,
>>Since you have data to test with, try with another flag excluding 1024 (say 0 or 4 only). Also you can try an alternative:
>>
>>oRS.Save("mytemp.xml",1)
>>xmltocursor("myTemp.xml",'myCursor',512)
>>
>
>No difference, already had tried the 4 and 0, and as for creating the file on disk it is noticeably slower and same problem. I sure wish that Microsoft had put a method on the recordset or the DOMDocument that would allow for escaping these XML unsafe characters. I'm a little surprised that it's not there to be honest. Since the XML never gets created on the Save method of the recordset there's no way I can see to fix this besides a rather clumsy hack... I hate hacks, but they're better than no solution at all. Perhaps you're right, that a better solution is still out there. I'll keep my fingers crossed and the stars for you in case nothing comes through by later tonight. Thanks again Cetin... if you get any other ideas I'm all ears.
>
>>PS: I never mind about stars:) Keep as is so a better solution might come.
>>Cetin