That worked great as well.

Want to say a special thanks for your help on this thread. I was looking at about 8 hours of work ripping out an existing functionality that put a text representation into a memo field and converting to using a table. By being able to use the XML in the same memo field, it has only taken me about 2 hours to get it to that same place.

>I would check
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>LEFT(Xml,5) = "<?xml"
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>It doesn't guarantied that it's valid XML but I doubt that you have memos that starts with that and are not valid XML.
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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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