>thanks for the response Nadya, but I do have a good reason to do this. I want to capture the cursro into an XMLAdaper with the correct name, I am sure I can find a work-around to acomplish the same thing. This routine is part of "blind" code which knows nothing about the tables which are being extracted, so it appends a "_IN" to the tablename for the alias and tries to replicate only the required records into the XMLAdaper.
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Hi Glenn,

With XMLAdapter, the XML element name and table alias don't have to be the same.
If you are using AddTableSchema method, use cXMLName parameter to provide element's name.
If you already have XMLTable object, change Alias property to point to the new cursor.

Thanks,
Aleksey.