You didn't specify that the first parameter is a file name (flag=512).

XMLTOCURSOR("sync_profile.xml", "crsFromXml", 512)

>use code to create this xml file
>
>

><?xml version = "1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
><VFPData>
>	<xsd:schema id="VFPData" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
>		<xsd:element name="VFPData" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
>			<xsd:complexType>
>				<xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
>					<xsd:element name="sync_profile" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>						<xsd:complexType>
>							<xsd:sequence>
>								<xsd:element name="lastid" type="xsd:int"/>
>								<xsd:element name="upddttm" type="xsd:dateTime"/>
>							</xsd:sequence>
>						</xsd:complexType>
>					</xsd:element>
>				</xsd:choice>
>				<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" processContents="lax"/>
>			</xsd:complexType>
>		</xsd:element>
>	</xsd:schema>
>	<sync_profile>
>		<lastid>206443</lastid>
>		<upddttm>2010-03-08T07:59:11</upddttm>
>	</sync_profile>
></VFPData>
>
>

>
>and this is the code:
>

>CREATE CURSOR sync_profile (lastID i,upddttm t)
>append blank
>REPLACE lastid with 14438 , upddttm WITH DATETIME()
>CURSORTOXML("sync_profile","sync_profile.xml",0,512,0,"1")
>

>
>i get an error with this
>XMLTOCURSOR("sync_profile.xml")
>
>
>xml parser error; invalid at the top level of document
>
>
>wha am I doing wrong here ????
>
>
>Thnaks
>
>
>Peter