Hi all, I have an application that consists of 140+ XML documents, roughly 100k bytes each that I want to be able to query (using XSL pattern matching at present) and output to XML/HTML and RTF format. This will happen in real time (if at all possible). At the moment, my XML documents are held as files in a real file system (sacrilige! :). However, I'd like to get them into the database structure if at all possible, as I imagine it will make things easier in terms of searching. For example, the XML file <?xml version="1.0"?> <document title="Cell Biology"> <topic title="introduction" id="cb1"> Cell Biology is a good thing. If it weren't for Cell Biology, you wouldn't be around. </topic> <topic title="lectures" id="cb2"> <topic title="lecture" id="cb2" num="1"> This is lecture 1. </topic> <topic title="lecture" id="cb3" num="2"> This is lecture 2. </topic> <topic title="reading list" id="cb4"> <topic title="bok" id="cb5"> A big bok </topic> </topic> </topic> Would lend itself to creation in the Zope database really easily (I think). XML elements (document, topic) and attributes such as id (used to uniquely identify an element) and title would be properties of the DTML document/method. So long as the id numbers were properly arranged, it should be *relatively* (good word that!) simple to recreate the original XML document. I assume that parsing the XML (in actual fact, the DTML doc/method would consist of *very little* XML I think, it all being taken care of in properties) to create HTML would be, again, relatively easy (my own tendency is to use the 'title' attribute as a class identifier for cascading style sheets). My question is, do people think that this idea could fly? I have spent *a long time* looking at how to get our Word (sorry for saying that!) documents into a format that means they can be easily put into a database and thereby benefit from all the good things that means. Several cul-de-sacs and wasted weekends later, it seems to me that Zope is coming out to be the closest thing to a solution for my problem... (I know from off-list discussions that there's a definite 'weirdness' about how people have been wanting/needing to implement things and then finding that (a) Zope does it already, (b) there's a product available or (c) someones working on it... !). any thoughts, as usual, greatly appreciated. tone.