One more thing I just found out. The 4Thought DOM module (4DOM: http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4DOM/) implements an idl interface that appears on a quick glance to be ver similar to the gdome one, and apparently works with Fnorb and ILU. It is LGPLed, so we could use that if need be, and I assume that the PyXML DOM module may eventually implement the same sort of interface. Thanks again, Gary, for pointing out the importance of having the CORBA interface! I hadn't even thought about it previously. Brad