List Just to let you know, 10gR2 has some new XML DB functionality if anyone is interested in testing. I saw the link in the XML DB discussions group. Hopefully I've copied it correctly below for sign up. http://otnbeta.oracle.com/betaprograms/DB10gR2c/index.htm --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! ? What will yours do? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l