>I am trying to get data from Foxcentral and one of the pieces of data as a colon in it. IE, the webbrowser control and XMLToCursor all complain about it. How do I handle ":","-" and other special characters? Here is the tag.

Are you sure there isn't more to this? Colons, and dashes should be cool:

lcXML = '<a><b><c>a:a-a</c></b></a>'
?XMLTOCURSOR(lcXML, 'f')

There may be something else wrong.