[big snip of quite educational material]

>If someone suggests using XML as a solution for your problem, I'd look
>closely to see if there isn't some nice simple boring way to accomplish the
>same thing first.

Hmmm. Looks like I'll probably stick with sending data from my NMPRG
to the Java GUI client program or applet using the "boring" approach
of simple DISPLAY statements with fixed columns, comma delimited or
somesuch. The parsing on the Java side (eg with substring() or alike)
is fairly straightforward -- and it already works as of today, without
me having to struggle with learning lots of complex standards/specs.

Lars "keeping things simple is more 3000-like"

(ok, I'm just to lazy to learn N+1 new "standards" every day ;-)