I am returning a cursor from FoxPro using CursorToXML(lcAlias,"lcXML",1,0,0,"1"), then converting the XML to a DataSet in .NET. It works well unless the cursor includes empty dates. .NET doesn't like them. It wants NULLs, meaning the field element is excluded altogether in the XML. I can work around the issue by not including a schema, but that treats everything as a string and doesn't meet my needs. I don't want to replace the empty date fields with NULL in FoxPro. I could strip the empty fields out of the XML on the .NET side before loading the XML into a DataSet, which is ok, but I'm wondering if there is a better solution? I have read Message #1199897, but that didn't work for me.

Thanks.