I normally avoid using Reserved words. The below XML snippet was cut out of a much larger snippet. I am using Win2k SP2 VFP 7.0 SP1 as you are however I got everythinhg working even using reserved words. I am not sure what is going on on yourside.

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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>
>

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>>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.
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>>Enlightenment would be appreciated.
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>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