>The counter reason, however, is that for rapidly parsing and displaying >the data, the bleb-XML format is much more suited. OK >Agreed. But patches speak louder than words ;-) That sounds like a challenge. And if I'd done more than a couple of hours of Perl I'd have a bash. The time it's taken me to get the faintest glimmer of what it does persuades me to stick with what I'm good at. Adrian