>My idea was a "push" to each instance of the form -- your idea of the timestamp is a "pull". The idea of the push was to mimic the clipboard -- all share the same data; since each "clipboard" cursor resided in a separate datasession, I was looking to push the copied nodes. I think your idea is better with the timestamp and let each form get it on demand (pull) -- less overhead required and I don't have to worry about collection management of the form references. Thanks.
The object is a "clipboard" for XML.
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