Unfortunately that is a MySQL database and when I create a blob field in MySQL it gets converted into Gen when I execute query,

Looks like I need to look for another solution, exlcude that field from the XML and handle it separately.

>Make sure that field with JPG is either Memo(binary) or Blob.
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>>I have a cursor with a memo field that stores a JPG file.
>>When I do
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>>CURSORTOXML(ALIAS(),"test.xml",1,8+512)
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>>Then the next line causes an error:
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>>XMLTOCURSOR("test.xml","testme",512)
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>>Message: "An invalid character was found in text content"
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>>So far no luch playing around with the Flags parameter. Any ideas?