> I think a diagnostic that says the term can't be rendered as XML. Except we can't do that either, as we don't have a space for term surrogate diagnostics. We could have a diagnostic saying that some terms have been omitted though. > The other choice is to support an alternative transfer of terms as byte > arrays. :-( Base64 encoded with some sort of marker? ,'/:. Dr Robert Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 ,'---/::::::::::. University of Liverpool ____/:::::::::::::. I L L U M I N A T I L5R Shop: http://www.cardsnotwords.com/