Evan,

XML isn't VFP supported data type. From VFP POV it's just a string so it'has to be passed as a string.

>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.
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>String that I am trying to execute is below. As you can see, there are all kinds of periods.
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>oRep.Device(<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
><VFPData xml:space="preserve">

<snip>

></VFPData>
>)
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