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[See my previous post]

Creating the XML wasn't difficult, I knew that it wouldn't be. Parsing the thing back will be a bugger.

There's a big bit of me asking why this is should be so. It's not as if XML isn't a standard. Someone should have made this easy. But..

If I bump into a bod on the street and start talking Topology [not there yet, but will be sometime soon ], I'm seen as a benign idiot; I start talking XML and I'm a signed-up-member-of [insert your favourite hate group here].

True, the thing was, and is, used wrongly, but we can say this about any data format, can't we? Morons used it when they shouldn't, it's still better than anything else we have. Or do you fancy openDoc?

Who knows. But it is, funny? One of the major techs that drives the web is named after XML, which it doesn't use. AJAX [Asynchronous Javascipt and XML].

Only a moron loads XML, because you have to fork IE and normal browsers' javascript... [I've tried, if you want the almost working code drop me an email.]

Jings! I've just realized that I need to care not one iota about how others are going to use my stuff. I'm off the leash for once.

So it's going to be XML. Plus.