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Export data from Visual FoxPro table to XML file using dynamic filename with date and time
Login to Visual FoxPro -> Choose Visual FoxPro table -> Set XML filename template including date -> Export Visual FoxPro to XML using current date as file name
Choose Visual FoxPro and logon.
“Export From Table” for “XML to Visual FoxPro“.
Select XML file type.
1. Choose Visual FoxPro table.
2. Set XML file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.
3. Set rows options.
4. Export Visual FoxPro table data to XML file. Dynamically created XML file name using present system time.
After exporting, you can view output XML files.
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Visual FoxPro → XML reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in Visual FoxPro | in XML |
|---|---|---|
| Int | Numeric(10,0) | <int>1234</int> |
| Bigint | Numeric(19,0) | <bigint>9007199254740993</bigint> |
| Decimal | Numeric(p,s) | <decimal>1234.56</decimal> |
| Float | Float | <float>1.234e10</float> |
| Text | Character(n) | <char>text</char> |
| Long text | Memo | <text>multi-line text</text> (entities for & <) |
| Date | Date | <date>2026-09-18</date> (xs:date with an XSD) |
| Datetime | DateTime | <datetime>2026-09-18T14:30:00Z</datetime> (xs:dateTime) |
| Binary | General | <blob>base64...</blob> (xs:base64Binary) |
| Boolean | Logical | <bool>true</bool> |
| JSON | (none) | escaped inside an element, or its own sub-tree |
Dialect differences
Visual FoxPro is a database server and XML is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference - the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.
| Property | in Visual FoxPro | in XML |
|---|---|---|
| port | (file-based) | — |
| identifiers | — | Attribute values in quotes; entities (& < >) for ... |
| row limit | (driver dependent) | — |
| dates | Date (D), DateTime (T) | Text (xs:date / xs:dateTime when an XSD is in play) |
| long text | Memo (M) | — |
| binary | General (G) | base64Binary / hexBinary inside text |
| separator | — | Tags, not delimiters |
| encoding | — | Declared in the XML declaration |
| typing | — | None in the markup itself |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Arbitrary tree |
| ceiling | — | Whole document is usually parsed into memory |
No counterpart
- XML has no equivalent for JSON - it has to be flattened or dropped.
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