John,

Rick's classes take cursors and objects to/from XML. I think it also has some ADO stuff too, but I'm using the cursor < - > XML stuff quite a bit in a VFP app.

>Free time can be a dangerous thing :-)
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>The following quote can be found all over the MSDN Web Workshop site when talking about XML:
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>Custom tools for viewing XML data can be written in the Visual Basic® development system, Java, and C++.
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>Now, excuse me for being a pinhead, but isn't virtually all MSXML.DLL functionality available from Visual FoxPro? I see that Rick Strahl wrote some XML conversion stuff that appears to expose the DOM pretty well.
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>What am I missing? Should I send a nastygram to Dr. GUI at MSDN about this apparent oversight? Before I do this, I would love to hear from Rick, Ken, or someone who has done extensive work with XML.