I have a series of VFP commands store in the memo fields of a table. Some of these commands are method calls with XML parameters. To execute these commands, I am using macro expansion. If a command contains an XML parameter it fails with the error "Function name is missing )." I think this is because the XML contains periods which signal the end of the macro processing. Is this true, and what can be done about it.

String that I am trying to execute is below. As you can see, there are all kinds of periods.

oRep.Device(<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
<VFPData xml:space="preserve">
	<xsd:schema id="VFPData" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
		<xsd:element name="VFPData" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
			<xsd:complexType>
				<xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
					<xsd:element name="parms" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
						<xsd:complexType>
							<xsd:sequence>
								<xsd:element name="deptid">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="deptname">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
											<xsd:maxLength value="30"></xsd:maxLength>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="start" type="xsd:date"></xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="end" type="xsd:date"></xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="modelid">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="devtypeid">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="makerid">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="staffid">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="teamid">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="serviceid">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="group1">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="group2">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="group3">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="7"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="0"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
								<xsd:element name="labourrate">
									<xsd:simpleType>
										<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
											<xsd:totalDigits value="5"></xsd:totalDigits>
											<xsd:fractionDigits value="2"></xsd:fractionDigits>
										</xsd:restriction>
									</xsd:simpleType>
								</xsd:element>
							</xsd:sequence>
						</xsd:complexType>
					</xsd:element>
				</xsd:choice>
				<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" processContents="lax"></xsd:anyAttribute>
			</xsd:complexType>
		</xsd:element>
	</xsd:schema>
	<parms>
		<deptid>41</deptid>
		<deptname>Hemodialysis                  </deptname>
		<start>1980-01-01</start>
		<end>2003-01-01</end>
		<modelid>0</modelid>
		<devtypeid>0</devtypeid>
		<makerid>0</makerid>
		<staffid>0</staffid>
		<teamid>0</teamid>
		<serviceid>0</serviceid>
		<group1>-1</group1>
		<group2>-1</group2>
		<group3>-1</group3>
		<labourrate>28.00</labourrate>
	</parms>
</VFPData>
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