>Using this approach works for me without any runtime error.

> Is the receiving object of type int? Are you sure the fk_dept can be converted to int?

The record set is from a VFP table, converted to XML with CURSORTOXML. fk_dept is a number that ranges from 0 to 9999999

> Did something get confused in the translation of the XML string? Just some ideas.

Not sure. I'll look at the XML, but I'll not really sure what I'm looking for. :-)