>Thanks for answering John. I don't know very much XML, but from what I've read, it's good for transferring data that can be represented like a table. But what if you have a text or binary file to send? Is XML able to do that?

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>Since you are wanting to implement this with other applications, you might want to look at Web Connection and pass the data as XML. WWW.West-wind.com

From Rick's Website:
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Another huge benefit of XML as a data representation mechanism is that XML can combine multiple pieces of data into a single document. The markup language has support for stacked and hierarchical data representation. XML documents can combine several separate entities (be it tables, objects, messages or metadata) into a single file or text string. For example, you can send the actual data of say a table, as well as a message header that describes the data or maybe contains any error conditions that might have occurred in obtaining that data. You could also combine multiple tables (as an example) into a single document. Or a table and an object both parsed into XML. >>

See http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/xmlmessaging/xmlmessaging.htm for further information.

The downside is that Netscape doesn't handle XML too well currently. If you have to be cross-browser compliant, you'll have to wait on NS to catchup.

John Harvey
Shelbynet.com

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