That worked great! Is there a way for me to determine if the contents are actually valid XML? It's possible that during a transition period some of the memo fields will not have XML in them and I don't want to try and create a cursor from bad data.

>In order to correctly convert XML back to cursor, you've to include inline schema into generated XML
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>CREATE CURSOR XmlStore (pk I, xml M NOCPTRANS)
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>CREATE CURSOR Test (id  I, txt C(10), note M )
>INSERT INTO Test VALUES (1, "One", "First Line")
>INSERT INTO Test VALUES (2, "Two", "Second line")
>INSERT INTO Test VALUES (3, "Three", "Third line")
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>lcXml = ""
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>CURSORTOXML(0, "lcXml",1,8,0,"1")
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>INSERT INTO XmlStore VALUES (1, lcXml)
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>XMLTOCURSOR(XmlStore.xml , "crsXml")
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>BROWSE LAST NOWAIT
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>>I would like to store a cursor to a memo (general?) field in a format (XML?) so I can recreate the cursor later. How can I do this? I've looked at CursorToXML and XMLToCursor, but it doesn't seem to do what I want. Or I don't know how to use it for this.