Kurt Granroth wrote: > XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a markup-language -- a way of > logically defining the structure of the information in a text file. > > CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) is a version control mechanism -- a > way of keeping a "history" of all changes you make to an entire > project. > > I have a decent amount of experience with the former and a LOT of > experience with the latter so if you can describe what your problem is > in more detail, I might be able to help. Uhhh, I think he means CSV (Comma Separated Values). There are tools that will transform relational data (which can easily be generated using CSV files) to/from XML... A good place to start would be Ron Bourret's web site. http://www.rpbourret.com/ He has a toolset that he developed as well as links to just about every commercial and OSS XML/Database tool. Hope that helps, Tom -- Tom Bradford The dbXML Project http://www.dbxml.org