>In VFP 8,
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>XMLTOCURSOR("<d><row><f>1.2.3</f></row></d>")
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>causes error.
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>I need that this XMLTOCURSOR() call will not cause an error as in VFP 7.

What is your expected result? When I run that in VFP7, I get "1.200". If it's being passed an invalid data field, do you really want it to make something up and hope it gets it right?