>If the field is not empty, you may try to restore back to cursor in try/catch block. Do you want to validate the memo field because you're afraid the CursorToXml will take long time?

No, I assumed that if there was bad data in the memo field, it would crash when trying to restore to cursor. I don't think about Try/Catch enough though. That will probably work just fine.

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>>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.
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