Dean:

Use cursortoxml("SOMETABLE","C:\TEMP\myXMLFile.xml", 1, 512, 0, "xml.xsd", "c:\ed\xml.xsd") to construct a schema with the properties of the table you wish to emulate. Then cut and paste the reference into the xml file. If you have to change the original xml on the fly, use strtran() with filetostr() and use the resulting string in xmltocursor().

Luke