Terry,

>However, I did find a free tool ( http://www.vbxml.com/xpathvisualizer/ ) that loads an XML and then, based the Xpath query, will highlite those nodes participating in the query results.

Thanks for providing that link. I am working with XPath at the moment and it sounds like that will come in handy.

>Are there reasons certain types of XMLs will not load to XMLAdapter? I guess I am wondering if XMLAdapter/XMLToCursor are fully W3C.

VFP9 greatly improves support for non-.NET dataset hierarchical XML, and also includes an XPath capability to point a table object or individual field object to a specific node or collection of nodes in the incoming XML. This is done to allow you to fine-tune how XMLA handles "interesting" XML structures.

When I get some time (just finished up lots of travel) I'll go back in the thread and check out your sample and let you know if those features would have helped you.