>Right now our budget is tight but this might be a good argument for upgrading. I did find a validtor which will check the XML against the XSD at
>http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xsdvalidator/Default.aspx

You don't really need a validator - the XMLDOM will validate against the xsd and return an error if it doesn't match.

I don't think this will work even with VFP 8 and the XMLAdapter. Although more flexible the XMLAdapter still looks for data with a specific schema layout. You can tweak and play with that but ultimately it's still the general structure that you have to stick to - if your data doesn't follow that then it won't work.

There's always the option of manually parsing hte document - more work but it's always the most reliable mechanism...