>>>If a date field in the cursor is blank, I get an error when I load the XML into a dataset using ReadXML in my asp.net page. Code is:
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>>replace the empty date with null before generating the xml
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>Hi David. This is not directed at you.... but what a pain this is.

Yeah, I know. But when you think about it, it makes sense. Not many external systems understand the concept of the VFP empty date. We also had a situation where we had encrypted credit card information that wouldn't go into XML. So you have to be careful about what you put between the tags.