Seems that it is assuming a value of 1 to be .T. - I have stored the value to two decimal places and it works. So, revised question, how can you stop this conversion when you are actually working with a interger value of 1 ?

Thanks.

-=Gary

>Hi Everyone!
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>I have used for the first time CursorToXML to do just that, and XMLToCursor to recreate the cursor.
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>In the translation back to a cursor, the first field, nRecno, originally having a numeric value of 1 (see below for XML fragment)
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><nrecno>1</nrecno>
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>is being converted to .T. in the in the nRecno column of the new cursor.
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>In the CursorToXML call, I am simply stating the following :-
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>Cursortoxml('csrCandidates', 'cXml')
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>in the receiving object with its own private datasession, I am stating the following :-
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>Xmltocursor(m.cXMLIn, 'csrCandidates')
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>Any ideas why 1 is getting converted to .T. ?
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>Win2000 SP2, VFP7 SP1.
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>Thanks.
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>-=Gary