I'm cross-posting the below link for anybody interested in this discussion as this is an interesting one:

http://www.west-wind.com/wwThreads/Default.asp?MsgId=0LJ18AREF

+++ Rick ---

>Hi,
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>When we use CURSORTOXML() function, we can generate the resulting XML with in-line XML Schema. As far as I know, the MSXML version distributed with VFP 7.0 is MSXML 3.0 but XSD validation is available only on MSXML 4.0. So I am wondering about the following question: According to my tests, the XML output generated by CURSORTOXML() doesn't have its XML Schema validated when used to generate a new cursor with XMLTOCURSOR(). So, is the XML Schema generated by CURSORTOXML() a valid XSD schema? Probably this schema is internaly generated programatically and doesn't use the MSXML API, then can I account with this schema being a valid XSD schema? Surely I could make these tests myself but as I don't know MS XDR schemas (which may have being used somehow), I would like to get some comments about this.
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>Thanks in advance!