Thanks for the pointer ! Nigel.

there has been an announcement on the zope-xml list from one of the guys at FT yesterday here's a link: http://www.egroups.com/message/zope-xml/176?&start=148 its a alpha version of ZDOM. I think this w/ a post to the zope-xml list can give you a 'vague idea' of the future route, possibly.

~runyaga