>>>I'm getting some XML passed into my VFP COM component from as ASP.NET page. The XML has dates in the form
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>>><xs:element name="date_in" type="xs:date" />
>>><date_in>2002-08-01T00:00:00.0000000-07:00</date_in>
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>>>When I use XMLTOCURSOR(tcRecord,"cRecord",4) the date (datetime) field above is interpreted as {} instead of {^2002/08/01}. Anyone know how to correct this?
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>>You may try to pre-process the XML document as proposed in Message #701408
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>Hi Antonio. I need a more generic solution. Since I don't use datetime types at all, I've created a wrapper around XMLTOCURSOR to remove the time portion using STRTEAN
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>tcRecord = STRTRAN(tcRecord,'T00:00:00.0000000-07:00','')
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>Oh my aching CPU.

If you are confident that the time portion will allways come as 0 hour and from that particular timezone, your solution is much simpler and wiser. I'm sure your CPU is cool now.