Thnx Cetin,

meanwile i have made all my cursors complete with the right fieldproperties and values :)

Only thing that stays is the header-detail problem. Its so that in the xml multiple animals can be stocked and in the details there are no field links to the header. So i think thats going to be a big problem.

what i also see is when i check my xml with
FOR EACH lcTableName IN MyXmlAdapter.tables
lcTableName.tocursor()
ENDFOR
the first cursur that is made is the last detail file (animal is the header, risk and history are details)

you talk to add a keyfield in the header and detail but as there is no link to the header i wonder how i can make the link.