Come and get XMLKit ( http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/XMLKit ) !!! XMLKit is designed to give you Zope content developers simple, cached, lightweight access to XML, without the overheads of SAX and/or DOM. It is based on python's xmllib, so it is compatible with Zope 2.3.x as well as newer versions based on Python 2. It parses the XML to a simple (If slightly non-standard) DOM, which then gives very rapid access for other products. If you need access to XML, and you don't want to mess around with SAX, then you need XMLKit! Adrian... -- The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. - Sun Tzu