Thank-you for the reply, i'll read what you've written a couple times to decipher the code XML:Simple is easier for sure, but... sadly it only works on my own computer, not the target server. I've two hosts, both of which allow 'some' perl functions, but neither supplying all. Highly frusterating to make a bunch of 'working on my server code', then upload and only portions of it work on each host because of missing mods etc >.> Back to parsing your meanings :) *bow*