Dave writes: >If you have a c compiler, you might try expat at: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat > >If not, XML isn't that hard to parse in COBOL :-P Dave is one smart cookie to recognize the power of a wonderful language like COBOL. Heck, it's such a handy language I bet you could write a web server in COBOL :-) duane * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *