Thanks guys - I stumbled across a freeware gizmo that's getting me the record counts (all I really needed)...
I'll come back and address this later tonight..


>I created an XML file like this:
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>CURSORTOXML('cust', 'cust.xml', 1, 512, 0, 'cust.xld')
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>...and now I try to do this:
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>XMLTOCURSOR("c:\vv\cust.xml","curcust",512)
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>..and its failing. I have serveral files and they're all failing.
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>Sometimes I see this: "msxml3.dll: The sytem cannot locate the object specified."
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>The other problem is that some of the data was encrypted...so I'll see an error
>like "XML Parse error: An invalid character was found in text content. Line 11933, Position 24," - then says the field name and the encrypted jibberish that's there.
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>Anyone have any ideas?