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><?xml version = "1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
><VFPData>
>	<cssettings name="cntGetProductionDirectory" value="" type="C" width="0" precision="0"/>
>	<cssettings name="cntGetWorkDirectory" value="" type="C" width="0" precision="0"/>
></VFPData>

>
>When I turn this back into a cursor with XMLTCursor() the width and precision fields come in as logical data types with a value of .F. instead of numerical data types with a value of 0.
>
>Enlightenment would be appreciated.

You use reserved words for field names - better avoid them. I was not able to render the above XML on my VFP7 SP1 (Win2k) - it raised an XML Parse error.
Regards