Ooops... yeah you're right. While I was testing I was reading the data from disk rather than reading the XML...

+++ Rick ---



>>I've just posted a new article on the West Wind site:
>>.NET Interop for Visual FoxPro
>>http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/VfpDotNetInterop/vfpDotNetInterop.htm
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>Hi, Rick.
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>Nice article. Thanks!
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>Look, I think there´s an error in listing 23.4:
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>FUNCTION XMLDataSet(lcXML as String,lcCursor as String) as String
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>oXML = CREATEOBJECT("wwXML")
>CREATE CURSOR Temp (au_id c(10), au_lname c(15), Contract L, PK I)
>XML.DataSetXMLToCursor(FILETOSTR("d:\temp\authors.xml"),"temp","authors")
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>*** Just echo the data back as an HTML string
>RETURN this.ShowCursor()
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>Instead of take a file from your disk, you must take the lcXML parameter, don´t you?