Hi Andrus,

you'll need to supply a schema to xmltocursor in order to force data types and length.

Hank

>I use IE data binding from XML data island with data types.
>The ONLY way to implement this seems to use dt:dt attribute.
>
>However, FoxPro 7 XMLTOCURSOR() ignores data types. It converts string data to numeric. For wide fields, this causes error.
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>How to avoid error in the following code ?
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>How to create FoxPro cursor using xmltocursor() so that invoicenumber is numeric field ?
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>Remove spaces after < characters when trying to run the following code.
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>

>cXML = '< DocHead xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes"> < row>< invoicenumber dt:dt="string">123456789012345678901< /invoicenumber>< /row>< /DocHead>'
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>* Result:
>* XML parse error: field width or number of decimal places is invalid.
>* Is this bug or "behaviour by design"
>xmltocursor( cXML )
>