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In VFP8, is there now a way to not produce the XML declaration and VFPData tags? I produce output with CursorToXml and then I have to StrTran this stuff out every time to get my own enclosing tags.
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Instead of STRTRAN you may want to take a look at STREXTRACT to parse out what you need. It should make it really simple to get what you want.