Thanks all... that was a start...

I believe that 'it' will do what we want. Does 'it' refer to WWIP or web connection enterprise?

I did note that XMLToCursor expected XML generated from CursorToXML. I expect that the XML we receive will not be so generated.

As for this biz software... we are stuck with using XML as that is the system the government has chosen.

Could I build a DTD file and use the loadxml method to import foreign XML to VFP?