Hi Marin,

>What XmlAdapter does is to "chain" a cursor after the other, putting all of them under a single VFPDataSet hierarchy. Anyway, as VFP is so cursor-oriented, it is more useful that way

That is the conclusion toward which I am heading at the moment.

IMHO. It would be nice for VFP to work over the established relationships and build a real data tree, but then it would be a bit difficult (and probably quite slower) to pares it again to get the cursors.

And it seems that with a properly written schema, it ought to be able to do that. But I am not sufficiently familiar with msxml to know how it matches data to a schema or how it can be used to define a tree.

pamela