Hi Sergey thanks for that.

Having just cut out the relevant lines of code to reply to you I tried running them on their own and the damn thing worked so there must be something else causing my problem ( . I'll have to dig some more.

Thanks again.

Nick

>Nick,
>
>The following works for me

>CLOSE DATABASES
>
>CREATE CURSOR title (titleid i, name C(30))
>INSERT INTO title VALUES (1, "One")
>INSERT INTO title VALUES (2, "Two")
>INSERT INTO title VALUES (3, "Three")
>lcXml = ""
>? CURSORTOXML(ALIAS(), "lcXml", 1, 0, 0, "1")
>oXA = CREATEOBJECT("XmlAdapter")
>oXA.LoadXML(lcXml)
>oT = oXA.Tables.Item(1)
>oT.ToCursor(, "crsTitle")
>
>BROWSE LAST NOWAIT
>

How is it different from what you're doing?
>
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>>I have a table called title with fields titleid and name.
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>>I'm passing this data via xml along with other tables.
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>>loading it in with addtableschema then getting it back out with tocursor.
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>>This works in a loop and I get all my data for the other tables in the xml but I get nothing for the table title. I get the field names in a cursor but no data. I'm guessing title is some sort of reserved word causing this problem. Anyone know ? Plus is there any sort of workaround before I make one up.
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