Not an objection, just a comment. I'd like to try my hand at converting spreadsheet-type data sets to XML. Is there any chance you could post such a (tab-delimited) data set so that I could play around with it? Dan On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Bill Ries-Knight wrote: >OK, >I will use one of my wife's grade books, and build a data set in MS excel. >Objections?