Save the XML to a file with an XML extension. Double click on it to try to open it in IE. Can IE parse it?

Can you show us the XML here. Maybe we can see what may or may not be missing.

>I am trying to use the xmltocursor function. however each time i pass it the xml i get an error:
>Xml parser error
>invalid at top line of document
>line 1 position 1
>is there some special character that needs to be the first in this file??
>thanks.