The curator in our libraries' Special Collections Department tells me that BBEdit works very well with SGML / XML on the Mac. There's also a hierarchical database system with good scripting support that's worth looking into, called Userland Frontier, for the Mac. There's a very well written book about it by, I think, Matt Neuberg, published by O'Reilly. One of the intended uses of Frontier is to support large HTML sites, but the mechanisms would also work with EAD. There's a version of Frontier for Windows, but when I've experimented with it, it has crashed too often for me to recommend it. I think the Mac version is not so buggy. You can get a free version of it via the Internet. (By the way, that's the BBEdit that you have to buy, not the free BBEdit Lite.) -- Kevin Cawley Archivist University of Notre Dame [log in to unmask]