Had some trouble getting strings to unpack because the xml-rpc client I'm using from IE 5 wraps strings in CDATA. Anyway, I installed PyXML 0.7 and changed Zope's xmlrpclib to use from _xmlplus.parsers import sgmlop and that solved the CDATA problem, plus it's faster. This is with Zope 2.5B3 Should Zope include PyXML components? Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com AOL-IM: BKClements