>>>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.
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>>Like Mike said, there is nothing "special" about : xmlwise (the special entities you should pay attention to are quot, amp, gt, lt and apos). The element you posted is read by my IE without a glitch. As a rule of thumb, I always protect uncontrolled and arbitray text under a CDATA element.
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XMLTOCURSOR("<a><b><content>sdsd In this issue: The Geeky Things We Do, Custom Scripts in IntelliSense, Driving the Data Bus: Become the Master of All You Survey-Using XML as a Flexible Data Capture and Retrieval Medium, Integrating Acrobat with VFP-Part 2</content></b></a>",'f')

I'm not working with VFP7 (yet) but maybe this is a "string length" issue (wider than 254). Put the string in a .xml file and read it back and see if it the error persists.

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