Erik:

Another nice thing about using XML as a messenger is being able to use XSL to format data. I did a little experiementing with this technology and was very impressed, although it was hard to understand. I wonder if there is any potential for using XML\XSL to replace the Report Writer in VFP?

The biggest problem I see with using XML as a messenger is the overhead involved in creating and parsing it, this obstacle may limit XML's viablility.

Charlie