>Does anybody know of/have any classes for manipulating to/from XML that don't rely on the presence of IE?

wwXML only uses XMLDOM for parsing XML, not for creating it. I think you'll find this is the case with most XML tools. An XML parser is a very complex piece of software, and their functionality is not easily built. There are only a couple of XML parsers that I know about that expose themselves through COM, and XMLDOM is the only free one.

What exactly do you need to do?