VFP6 don't have native functions about XML, but Rick Strahl has develop a class to deal with:

--- wwXML Class - exporting and importing XML for VFP ---
http://www.west-wind.com/files/wwXML.zip
"Want to get practical with XML in your application? Then check out this free class that converts VFP data and objects to and from XML. Class features many advanced features including data structure definitions, automatic cursor creation on imports and support for hierarchical object exports and imports. Also includes tools for directly querying ODBC data sources into XML output. Additional support for ADO compatible XML is also supported so you can easily convert between XML and ADO data. Note XML imports require the IE 5.0 XMLDOM parser. Free."

HTH.

>>The table will belong to one database being used by Visual FoxPro 6 application and at the same time will belong to another database created with Visual FoxPro 8.
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>>Do you think this will work? Any potential problems?
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>>Thank you.
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>Keep the table free and create a view in your 2 (or 3 or 4 or ...) databases.
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>:-)

>Free table is not an option. This is an existing application. I need to add >a stored procedure to convert an XML file to a cursor. Visual FoxPro 6 does >not have (as far as I know) functions to "deal" with XML files. So my >thought was to create Visual FoxPro 8 database with a stored procedure that >would process the XML file. But, alas, this will not work.

>So I will just have to parse the XML file in Visual FoxPro 6 stored >procedure.

>Thank you for your suggestion.