>The only hack I could come up with in such a quick way is this: (Set deleted must be on)
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>LOCAL lEmptyCursor
>lEmptyCursor=ATC("< /xsd:schema >< /VFPData >",STRTRAN(CHRTRAN(lcxml,CHR(9)+CHR(13)+CHR(10),SPACE(3))," ",""))>0
>XMLTOCURSOR(lcXML, "the alias")
>IF lEmptyCursor
>   DELETE ALL
>ENDIF
>

Yes, either that or the other approach I use to just return a messagebox to notify the user.