Thank you Martin. This does the job nicely. Can you explain the meaning of the content of the line:

loxx=loxml.documentElement.selectNodes("*/*/*/*/*/*[local-name( ='schedules']/*[local-name()='schedule']")

What does the "local-name()=" refer to? I know you said it was equivalent to the other syntax but the other form is easier to read. Alas I was not able to get the other form to work. (Maybe I missed one of the levels.)

Also, what do these 2 lines do?

loXML.async=.f.
loXML.SetProperty("SelectionLanguage","XPath")

Thanks again.