Hey All, While messing around with XML I became really frustrated at how unnatural it seemed to extract data out of documents. I ended up writing my own python class to do exactly what felt natural. The problem is the entire time I kept telling myself "this code has to already exist somewhere" I just could never find it. So if anyone is interested take a look at how this class works and tell me if 1) this seems useful 2) this is already supported by someone else A brief example of how it is used -------------- < collection > < comic issue="1"> < author > Stan Lee < /author > < /comic > < /collection > can be accessed as collection.comic.author.TEXT collection.comic.ATTR('issue') --------------- a more complete write-up w/source is available at http://www.people.hbs.edu/jgriffith/simplexmlobject.html Thanks! -Jeff Griffith