I never used that function before, but according to HELP You can use it:

myXMLFile = "c:\test\MyXML.XML"
XMLTOCURSOR(myXMLFile,"cMyCursorName", 512) && The flag 512 is importand if you send a filename to function


* --- or ---*

myXMLFile = FILETOSTR("c:\test\MyXML.XML")

XMLTOCURSOR(myXMLFile,"cMyCursorName")

of course all above is according to HELP in VFP 8.0 (sorry)

HTH