Couple of things:

Export with a Schema. If you export without you may not get the right type of data back in. I don't htink that's a problem with what you have going on here but it's a good idea regardless. It will bloat the data some unfortunately though.

Use UTF-8 encoding - there's a flag for that I believe. Using Windwos 1252 is generally a bad idea if the XML ever goes onto a non-windows machine.

Finally - consider using XmlAdapter instead of XmlToCursor(). XmlAdapter is better optimized and uses MsXml 4.0 instead of 2.0 of CursorToXml(). There are some helpers in Web Connection and the client tools with the wwXmlAdapter which wrap some of the common operations you're likely to perform.

Now - honestly - none of these would account for the bad character error you're seeing unless you are dealing with binary data in a memo field. That'll fail as soon as CHR(0) is encountered I think. I believe XmlAdapter deals with binary data a little more gracefully.

+++ Rick ---



>I used CursorToXML() to convert a FoxPro cursor to an XML file. That part worked fine, and it generated what looks like a good XML file to me.
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>CursorToXML('gfse_searchresults','c:\temp\001.xml',1,512,0)
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>However, when I try to use XmlToCur() on this XML file to read it back into a cursor, it complains about an invalid character.
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>XMLToCursor("c:\temp\001.xml", "test",512)
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>Error: XML Parser error: An invalid character was found in text content. Line 143, Position 15. _memberdata =
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>I know that one of the fields in my original cursor is a memo field which contains FoxPro code with a reference to the _memberdata property of a form, which is XML already, so it appears that this is causing the XmlToCursor() to fail.
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><?xml version = "1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
><VFPData>
>	<gfse_searchresults>
>		<process>false</process>
>		<filepath>h:\work\lm5\classes\menu.vcx</filepath>
>		<filename>menu.vcx</filename>
>		<trimmedmatchline>cpartcountsource A string that will be Eval'd to get the Qty of the current Part.</trimmedmatchline>
>		<baseclass>grid</baseclass>
>		<parentclass>menugrid</parentclass>
>		<class>gridpartmtlitems</class>
>		<name>cpartcountsource</name>
>		<methodname/>
>		<containingclass/>
>		<classloc>menu.vcx</classloc>
>		<matchtype>&lt;&lt;Property Def&gt;&gt;</matchtype>
>		<timestamp>2014-12-17T17:29:32</timestamp>
>		<filetype>VCX</filetype>
>		<type/>
>		<recno>588</recno>
>		<procstart>0</procstart>
>		<matchstart>12</matchstart>
>		<matchlen>82</matchlen>
>		<listext>false</listext>
>		<column>RESERVED3</column>
>		<code>npartcount
>cpartcountsource A string that will be Eval'd to get the Qty of the current Part.
></code>
>		<id>9</id>
>		<matchline>cpartcountsource A string that will be Eval'd to get the Qty of the current Part.
></matchline>
>		<replaced>false</replaced>
>		<trimmedreplaceline/>
>		<replaceline/>
>		<replacerisk>3</replacerisk>
>		<replace_dt/>
>	</gfse_searchresults>
></VFPData>
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