>Was not aware of that. so you are saying that if the memo field is a memo binary that the XML's will not choke? Thanks for the tip, will look into it. Right now, i am doing a strip of all ascii values < 32 except 9,10, and 13 and getting by with that.
Yep, just create a simple cursor with a couple of fields, insert a few values and see what XML you get if nocptran. You get your memos repacked into stuff like "![CDATA[PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbiA9ICIxLj...". All 7-bit ASCII, can even email it as text attachment.