>>John,
>>You're lucky:) New XMLAdapter is fantastic for the job (recently I'm using it to create hierarchical, user editable HTML reporting - XML,HTML,XHTML,XSL transformations). One sample or two is not enough to see its power and the sample might not be geared towards what you need (ie: if you need it to exchange data with .Net datasets there is completely different one), anyway here is a very simple one:
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>Thanks to both of you.
>I didn't know it existed. It looks like I have some experimenting to do this weekend.
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>I will be creating a single cursor and using that for the export. Can it be a cursor or does it need to be a table?

It can be a cursor. If a single cursor then you can use the simplier cursortoxml(), xmltocursor() functions.
Cetin