>I have been finding this out myself. XML standard does not seem to cross software applications well. I have tried XML from VFP to Cold Fusion and found that it does not work and this test with LiveLink may prove the same.
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>I was hoping the standard XML that VFP will create would be recognized by other software packages, but I have had only limited success and mostly because XML standards between applications are different.

There is a difference between XML as a standard and schemas as standards. There is nothing in VFP 7.0 that prevents compatibility with various applications and VFP 7.0 is fully XML and XSD schema compliant. Companies and products use XML and in particular specific schemas and there is no standard for selection the structure of the schema itself. So XML and XSD is a standard, but how developers/companies use XML is not a standard, just like there is no standard for how you create an object-oriented class library. If you need to reference an XML source that is not in the schema format for import for VFP7/SQLServer2000, you will need to map/transform that XML document into a new XML document that matches the required schema either using XSLT or some other methods. This is not exclusive to VFP7 or MS products, this is the way of the world with XML today and with schemas that exist and the fact anyone can create any schema structure without any standard structure in doing so.