"Alan J. Williams" wrote: > Iinitially it would probably be a local filesystem plug-in and a db > plug-in [either mysql or acedb].) I'm not really up on databases, but is there a DB that uses XML as a data format? Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu Boston College Chemistry http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Chem/Bizzaro/ --