The ALTER TABLE command works on cursors if they don't have fields with names exciding 10 characters.
BTW, did you look into using XMLADAPTER()? I didn't have a need to use it yet but it offers more control over XML processing.

>Yes, this is what I ended up doing. However, I realize that I can do it in another way. Originally, I thought I would modify the table structure to match that but I didn't like that. With your reply, it gave me a new idea. I thought I would apply the ALTER TABLE command on the cursor, which is a cursor containing all records from the original table which is used to build the schema. So, I could either ALTER TALBE on that copy of the table or I could ALTER the structure of the cursor. However, it seems that the ALTER command doesn't work on cursor. Have you found a way to do that?