>OK, thanks, I've got it!

Sorry I forgot to put spaces in the escaped character so you could see it;

& # 235; OR & euml; (take the spaces out)




>
>>It has nothing to do with VFP, is has to do with the ë being and invalid character in XML. You need to escape that character by using ë or ë oryou need to put the name tag in a CDATA enclosure as in;
>>
>>

>>=fputs(lnFile,'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>')
>>=fputs(lnFile,[	<DATA>])
>>=fputs(lnFile,[		<DOC_ATTR>])
>>
>>=fputs(lnFile,[			<NAME_1><![CDATA[Curiël]]></NAME_1>])
>>OR
>>=fputs(lnFile,[			<NAME_1>Curiël</NAME_1>])
>>OR
>>=fputs(lnFile,[			<NAME_1>Curiël</NAME_1>])
>>
>>=fputs(lnFile,[		</DOC_ATTR>])
>>=fputs(lnFile,[	</DATA>])
>>
>>=fclose(lnFile)
>>

>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am trying to create an XML file in foxPro 2.x:
>>>

>>>lnFile = fCREATE("test.txt",0)
>>>
>>>=fputs(lnFile,'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>')
>>>=fputs(lnFile,[	<DATA>])
>>>=fputs(lnFile,[		<DOC_ATTR>])
>>>=fputs(lnFile,[			<NAME_1>Curiël</NAME_1>])
>>>=fputs(lnFile,[		</DOC_ATTR>])
>>>=fputs(lnFile,[	</DATA>])
>>>
>>>=fclose(lnFile)
>>>

>>>
>>>However, the file that I created this way cannot be opened as a XML file. What I noticed is that if I create the same file in VFP, the file is correct. But created with FoxPro 2.6, it gives this error (in IE):
>>>

>>>An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'file:///H:/projects/PRNEW/TEST.xml'. Line 4, Po...
>>>
>>>   <NAME_1>Curi
>>>
>>>
>>>

>>>
>>>Has anybody an idea what I could do about that?