You are correct. The problem arrived when I converted the cursor to a table <s>

mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!

Thanks


>Hi Peter,
>
>I don't see it. In my test code below the fields with names longer than 10 characters are handled properly. What's different in your case? Can you change my code to demondtrate the problem?

>Open database (HOME(2) + "Northwind\northwind.dbc")
>? CURSORTOXML(0, "Customers.xml", 1, 512, 0, "1")
>? XMLTOCURSOR("Customers.xml", "CRSCustomers", 512)
>BROWSE LAST
>

>
>
>>I just dicovered a MAJOR flow in XMLTOCURSOR() function.
>>
>>If the field name exceeds 10 char this column remains blank!
>>
>>
>>Peoplesoft folks use lots of long fieldnames and none of those data get imported!!!!!
>>
>>
>>so I have to revert to manually parsing the xml file.
>>
>>What a pitty!
>>
>>Peter