Hi Guys,

I want to create a program that will convert a cursor into an xml file and later use that xml file to retrieve the data stored in it. I created the following cursor

CREATE CURSOR mycur (pono c(10), order I(4))

I then populated this cursor with the following records

1000 0
1001 1
1002 1

I then converted this cursor to xml using the following lines of code

CURSORTOXML("mycur","lcXML",1,48)
STRTOFILE(lcXML,"c:\mycur1.xml")

when its time for me to use the xml file and convert it back into a cursor I used the following lines of code
XMLTOCURSOR("c:\mycur1.xml","newcur",4)

The main problem is that the data type for the field pono has changed to Integer and the field for order has changed to L(1) or logical. Is there a way to retain the original field types of the original cursor which in this case is mycur? I am expecting that when I convert the xml file back to cursor using this line of code, XMLTOCURSOR("c:\mycur1.xml","newcur",4) it will create a new cursor with an alias of newcur having the same fields and data type as mycur.

Please help and thanks in advance...