Thanks Bill - serves me right for reading the documentation:smileyconfused: My more general problem is that I want to concatenate a bundle of XML documents/ files and parse the as a single file. This seems to work except that there are different Ordinal values maintained for each file. Ultimately, this means I end up with entries in the resulting tables that have duplicate values for the ordinal. Is there a code pattern that would allow me to accomplish the concatenation with the ordinals maintained across them all? [My initial hope was use the filename to distinguish the entries]. Any thoughts / approach would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dave
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