>thnx Torre,Sergey and David for your help. Thnx David for giving me more specific information about the parameters. This was a great help. I have only on problem left. When i try to reimport the xml back in vfp with xmltocursor i get an error like : xml parse error and a dutch error message like 'invalid on the highest level of the document'
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>the xml went to the ipac and back without changing anything to it.
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>Does somebody has a clue ?

Most likely you're running Xmltocursor() for a file and forgot to specify 512 flag. If it's not the case, post your code.