>> creating a schema than can be picked up from VFP using XMLTOCURSOR()
>I cannot because it's not VFP but Foxpro-DOS :-)
>That's the reason why I would like to do a service on SQL Server.


Now you are complicating the issue!! If you absolutely-positively have to use that ancient version, could you maybe create a VFP 9.0 COM object that receives a properly-named XML file and schema, does the XMLTOCURSOR() and creates a simple DBF that can be used by your software?