Hi Eric,

Try

select * from openxml (@idoc, '/*/*') WITH (string  char(16) '.')

>Thanks Sergey.. it really doesnt make sense to me why the other way didnt work.. anyway.. another question.. it wount let me have any properties in the root element.. ex

<ArrayOfString xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns="https://secure.mio.uwosh.edu/webservices/">

>
>Do I have to parse these out before I sent it to the sql server?? Is there some way I can tell the server to ignore it?