Visual FoxPro and XML

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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the standard language for describing and delivering data on the Web, just as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard language for creating and displaying Web pages. XML uses tags and attributes to delimit pieces of data, and leaves the interpretation of the data completely to the application that reads it. For more details, see XML Functions.

To make it possible for you to more easily implement data exchange via XML, Visual FoxPro provides new functions and functionality in the following functions:

  • CURSORTOXML( )   Converts a Visual FoxPro cursor into XML.
  • **XMLUPDATEGRAM( )   **Creates an XML UpdateGram from changes made to a buffered table or cursor.
  • XMLTOCURSOR( )   Converts XML data to a Visual FoxPro cursor or table.

See Also

CURSORTOXML( ) Function | XMLUPDATEGRAM( ) Function | XMLTOCURSOR( ) Function | XML Functions