I forgot to put single quotes around the XML.

Ah, I understand your reponse, you are saying that I didn't put the quotes. And now I have a string literal over 255. Arg!

>XML isn't VFP supported data type. From VFP POV it's just a string so it'has to be passed as a string.
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>>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">
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><snip>
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>></VFPData>
>>)
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