Hi Terry

>It seems (almost) simple if I understand your proposal.

Thanks for your help to the question. What my foremost question was, How can a dbf emulate unpredictable variable no. of fields? Sorry I was not able to explain it better.

But your solution does answer a question that would have followed, how to show all the children nodes details when a parent node was clicked? <g>.

And thanks a lot for using IE just for me. <g>