Yes, it is XML. I do have that squared away. For my purposes I don't need a tree, just to gracefully flatten it out for use in a monitor. Wanted it to be XML so I'd be positioned to go to a more standards-based solution in the future (I'm programming at the point of a gun lately-- my boss wants it now now now-- actually that's not true, he wants it _yesterday_ :) So quick-n-dirty is the order today.