Hmmm, I guess XML would be ideal for my purpose. It's just that I don't know enough about XML to immediately implement it (I'm barely in to reading XML Step-by-Step currently).

If you have any suggestions (code?) and/or some links to quickly make this approach work, I'll much appreciate it.

>>What do I have to do to have my IIS server return formatted text rather than an HTML output to the browser?
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>>I'm trying to setup a system to remotely query a MSSQL DB residing on an ISP server via Internet using a VB client (not a browser) via ASP page. The return rows should be something I could parse easily so I don't want to have all those HTML tags included, just the data in ASCII row/column fashion.
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>>Is there an easy way to do this? TIA.
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>Why not return XML?