>>>What was the point of XML again?
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>>To give a short answer: eXtensible Markup Language. It's not meant to only store/transfer data for foxpro cursors.
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>>Or from the other side: XMLTOCURSOR is not meant to convert any XML to a foxpro cursor.
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>>What you have here is a soap message, from which I guess this is a result of a web service request.
>>Have you played with "XML Web Services" of VFP's Task Pane?
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>Some, but I just kept getting errors.
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>Yes, this is a SOAP response from a web service. How do I convert that into something usable? If I have to write a parsing routine, then what is the point of the SOAP/XML? I could just as easily parse a flat file. Easier maybe. If there is a standard involved here, then shouldn't there be a standard way of reading the XML?

Without using XMLToCursor (the simplest XML) you may try to use XMLAdapter class.

See one example at http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/loading-xml-web-browser-control-variable and http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/using-xmladapter-create-and-load-nested-xml

and there should be other samples.