Hi Alex,

>It has worked well for me up to the point where I got a current project that requires nested XML, which XMLAdaptor cannot handle at this time. I had to replace it with a Set Textmerge set of constructs and several Case statements as each record (line) in the flat file format being replaced, has a different structure (PITA).

My issue is that I am my first applet that will use XML to transfer data around. I am struggling with how to package the data. It all seems so nice and neat to send little bundles with the customer, his orders and each order's items all neatly nested within each other. But as Martin said, VFP is cursor-oriented. You are going to have to split it all up into cursors anyway and that may take unnecessary time. After all, the only time you are ever going to look at the raw XML is when you are troubleshooting data problems and once those are solved, you might not look at it for ages. I am thinking that sending the data in linked, non-hierarchical fashion may be the most practical in the long run.

It's a double-edged sword that I have control over how the data is passed (because I control both ends) I get to have it the way I want it, but I also have to decide how I want it. <g>

pamela