You can use STREXTRACT()

TEXT TO lcXml NOSHOW
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
  <base64Binary xmlns="http://tempuri.org/literalTypes">blah blah blah</base64Binary>
ENDTEXT

? STREXTRACT(lcXml, [<base64Binary xmlns="http://tempuri.org/literalTypes">], [</base64Binary>],1,1) 
  

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>Question
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>Is this XML data (below...)?? I removed the "data" part in the middle and put blah blah blah there for privacy of the data.
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>?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
>  <base64Binary xmlns="http://tempuri.org/literalTypes">blah blah blah</base64Binary
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>If it is, how do I convert it to a Cursor? Use XMLTOCURSOR ??? I tried that, but was not able to get it to work. If so, how do you do it??
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>Thanks!