Thanks! I appreciate your comments! I am planning for a major new code release and this is just one small part. This is a time for me to reexamine previous decisions and designs. After 2+ years of negotiations, I finally convinced one website to give an efficient XML I/F with the features that I need and which also fits into this guy's plan for his website. This sort of thing sounds "easy", but in practice, it is not. I won't get what I "wanted", but I will get what I "need". And that will be enough.