"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote: > > Brad, while we're on this topic, perhaps XML writing should be done only when > the user chooses to "save" a network. You could use DOM in-between saves to > speed things up. You may recall from my earlier message about the "pseudo-distributed-filesystem" that we want to treat networks (of the BL and PL kind) something like a word-processing document: The user can choose "new", "open", "save", "save as", and "close" for any network. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+