Locians, The perl-XML group has been working on this problem, too. Try http://www.activestate.com/lyris/. Once there visit the perl-xml and search on database. DBIx::XML is one module that dovetails into some standardardized perl database code. Another thread is about mysql->exportxml.. On another note, DB2XML "relies on the functionality of the JDBC (or ODBC) driver in use" which may or may not be one of those roads to go down. <TABLE> <ROW field1= field2= ... /> </TABLE> On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, Gary Van Domselaar wrote: > Locians, > > Jeff and I have been searching (mostly in vain) for a GPL XML DBMS. We > have found the following link, which we may resort to instead: > > http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~turau/DB2XML/ > > > It is a java program, but it it worth checking for to see if the concept > of transforming relational data into XML is feasable for Loci. Comments > welcome! > > > -Gary and Jeff -- .david David Lapointe Do Not Attribute To Malice That Which Can Be Attributed To Stupidity