>thnx everybody,
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>finaly i have managed to read the xml and to change field properties and so on. But as you can see i have an xml with header and detail. i've looked at some sample codes and tried to work with the tables.childtable property. But i don't seem to make a connection between the base table animal and the detail tables history and risk so when i do tablename.tocursor() i have 3 cursors without a connection between the header and detail. can somebody give me a last advice ?

I think each XML is a self contained info about a single animal. I would add a key column to all tables (say AnimalID c(38) and populate it with a GUID value).
Cetin