Then your XML must not be in a format that VFP8 can recognize. Can you create an XML file in the structure you need, and compare it to your other file to see what's different?



>I am using VFP8
>
>Peter
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>>>I have an XML file which contains
>>>A header file
>>>- a Payment file
>>>--- a payment line item file
>>>---a distribution file
>>>
>>>
>>>xmltocursor create a cursor for the header file only
>>>
>>>
>>>How can I get the other information out into a cursor - and then back into a xml file
>>>
>>>the users are manually editing the data
>>>
>>>Peter
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>>VFP7 doesn't handle multiple files in a single XML file. You need VFP8 to support that.