I'll give this a try. That's exactly what i was thinking, about the misleading error. I'll tell you how things go..
Thanks
Jaime

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>selectSingleNode returns a .NULL. in case the query produces no results. I believe the error message, issued in the lcCountry assignment instruction, is misleading: it should say something like 'loElm is a NULL object' (since its type is O). Your checking code should be
>

  if !isnull(loElm)
>    lcCountry = loElm.text
>  else
>    ComReturnError('myclass', 'cannot find country node')
>  endif
>