Paul.   I really appreciate your reply and thanks for the effort on that form. I feel somehow things are different in my form as I am using livecycle on SAP platform with a SAP interface. But, I managed to solve the problem in a different way.Thanks once again..

Did you overcome the problem. I am facing a similar one.

I did try your option Paul, but it did not work. when I convert to XML using the code provided by you, thed data entered in the textbox is not to be seen when I view it.I am saving the entered value in the text field as XML string and passing the value to a textfield just to view the XML. Now I edit...

Thanks Paul... Lemme check this and let u know.

Hi,I have been trying to solve this problem..but no solution so far.This is the essence of the requirementWhen a user enters a value (suppose HELLO) in TextField1 and clicks on SAVEXML button. it converts the entry to XML and stores in a text box say textField2. Now I go and edit the value inbetween...