The XMLTOCURSOR() is designed to process simple XML created by CURSORTOXML() or similar to it. You can consider using XmlAdapter that can process more complex XML. Still it's limited capabilities. It also required XML schema in order to convert XML into VFP cursors. As last resort you can use XmlDom to parse any XML.

>I have to admit I am struggling with XML. Some things seem so easy and others so hard to follow or know where to go. It took me ages to get the syntax right for XMLtoCursor and I was so excited when it worked so easily and well (up to a point). My problem is that is doesn;t go quite low enough using 512 and I get an error "XML Parse error: Invalid at the top level of the document. Line 1, Position 1 . Image.xml" when I try 8192
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>eg
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>CREATE CURSOR curTemp (austr C(40), doseform c(22))
>xmlCnt = XMLTOCURSOR("image.xml","curTemp",8192)
>
>The XML file is below
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><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
>	<MedicationImageData>
>    	<Header>
>       	<Title>healthlinks.net image listing for August </Title>
>       	<Timestamp>07/08/2008 10:56</Timestamp>
>       	<SchemaVersion>2.2</SchemaVersion>
>       	<Sequence>0</Sequence>
>	</Header>
>
>	<Medication>
>		<Austr>65271</Austr>
>		<Name>Acenorm</Name>
>		<Strength>12.5mg</Strength>
>		<eCMILink>
>			<FriendlyName>Acenorm</FriendlyName>
>			<HLAustr>65271</HLAustr>
>		</eCMILink>
>		<VersionSequence>1</VersionSequence>
>		<DateEffective>20/06/2008 10:56</DateEffective>
>		<DateWithdrawn></DateWithdrawn>
>		<IsASubpackOfAUSTR></IsASubpackOfAUSTR>
>		<HasSubpacks>
>			<SubpackAUSTR></SubpackAUSTR>
>		</HasSubpacks> 
>		<Phase>
>			<PhaseItem>1</PhaseItem>
>			<DoseForm>Tablets</DoseForm>
>			<Colour>white</Colour>
>			<Scoring>scored</Scoring>
>			<Shape>capsule-shaped</Shape>
>			<Side1Marking>CL</Side1Marking>
>			<Side2Marking></Side2Marking>
>			<Image>65271-C01-01.jpg</Image>
>		</Phase>
>	</Medication>	
>
>when I use 
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>xmlCnt = XMLTOCURSOR("image.xml","curTemp",512)
>
>

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>I am given a beautiful cursor so easily but the cursor contains all of the eCMILink, HasSubpacks and Phase subfields in the one field eg instead of doseform, colour, scoring etc in their own fields I get them all joined together in a Phase Field
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>I would greatly appreciate any help on this as it would be so good to be able to do this in VFP especially as XML is becoming more and more common for data exchange.
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>KInd Regards,
>David