>I am trying to get a binary file into my XML document from inside my VFP .prg and I think I am seeing an interface incompatibility. What do you think?
>
>Fails with
>"OLE IDispath exception code 0 from msxml4.dll: Error parsing 'RIFFp0 ' as bin.base64 datatype"
>
>I thought this was supposed to convert binary automatically to base64?
>
>
>

>
>oSendDoc =  CreateObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.4.0")
>oSendDoc.SetProperty("SelectionLanguage" , "XPath")
>oRootElement = oSendDoc.createElement("xml")
>oRoot = oRootElement
>oSendDoc.appendChild(oRoot)
>oXmlPI = oSendDoc.createProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0'")
>oSendDoc.insertBefore(oXmlPI, oSendDoc.childNodes(0))
>oEnvElement = oSendDoc.createElement("envelope")
>oEnvElement.DataType = "bin.base64"
>oEnvElement.NodeTypedValue = FileToStr("c:\winnt\media\notify.wav")
>oRoot.appendChild( oEnvElement )
>oSendDoc.Save("it.xml")
>

Steve,
I don't think it'd automatically convert. You'd need to do conversion yourself. Hoping you have VFP7 a simplier way :

CREATE CURSOR myCursor (mydata m nocptrans)
APPEND BLANK
APPEND memo myData FROM "c:\Windows\media\notify.wav"
CURSORTOXML('myCursor','it.xml',1,512,0,'1')

Cetin