> If someone wants to write a regular expression client that > just rips out the contents of <recordData>, Then they are treating the XML document as a textual document and if they hit problems due to definitions (namespaces, entities, etc.) elsewhere in the document and referenced in the bit they've extract then that is their look-out (the XML worlds response to anyone who complains being DDTT - T in this case being extracting via a regular expression client ;-) ) Matthew