Thanks for all your help. It is always greatly appreciated. For now I'm using filetostr and strtofile to bring the file file in, make changes, and then save it back.

If I run into a probem with this, I will certainly refer back to your code.

Thanks again.
Regards,
Deb


>I would rather use XmlDom (MSXML). See sample code below
>

>lcXmlFile = FULLPATH("...")
>
>loXmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0")		&& MSXML 3.0, used by Xmltocursor()
>*loXmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0")		&& MSXML 4.0, used by XmlAdaptor
>
>* Turn some switches off
>loXmlDoc.validateOnParse = .F.
>loXmlDoc.async  = .F.
>loXmlDoc.resolveExternals  = .F.
>* 	and On
>loXmlDom.preserveWhiteSpace = .T.
>
>* Load the xml document
>= loXmlDoc.Load(lcXmlFile)
>
>* Check for errors
>If loXmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0
>   ?loXmlDoc.parseError.reason
>   RETURN .F.
>ENDIF
>
>* Set SelectionLanguage to XPath
>= loXmlDoc.SetProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath")
>* Set namespace. 'ns' is an arbitrary name
>= loXmlDoc.SetProperty("SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:ns='" + loXmlDoc.namespaces(0)+"'")
>
>* Read and set some items
>? ChangeItem(loXmlDoc, "address", "Some New Address")
>? ChangeItem(loXmlDoc, "contact", "New Name")
>
>* Save XML back
>loXmlDoc.Save(lcXmlFile)
>
>loXmlDoc = NULL
>RETURN
>
>FUNCTION ChangeItem(toXmlDom, tcAttributeName, tvNewValue)
>LOCAL loItem, llOK
>? "Item:", tcAttributeName
>loItem = toXmlDom.selectSingleNode("//ns:field[@name='" + tcAttributeName + "']")
>llOK = NOT ISNULL(loItem)
>IF llOK
>	? "Before:", loItem.nodeTypedValue
>	loItem.nodeTypedValue = tvNewValue
>	? "After:", loItem.nodeTypedValue
>	loItem = NULL
>ENDIF
>
>RETURN llOK
>ENDFUNC
>

>
>>I decided to bring the data in my xfdf file into my app using lcstring = filetostr(nys.xfdf)
>>So now lcstring has all the data.
>>
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