Huh. I wonder if this is a Good Thing? http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?PRANG Other than Omni Hotels, who else is doing mass XML processing w/ Perl in Omaha? What do you use? (Omni and I have been married to XML::Twig for years.) Jay Hannah Software Architect jhannah at mutationgrid.com | http://mutationgrid.com | 1-402-598-7782