Thank you to all those who responded to my post on XML and SAS. From the response, the SAS community seems to be thinking of XML's place in the SAS world more in its data-centric incarnation than in its document-centric incarnation. A good review article that goes into both uses of XML came out a few months ago. It's called "XML and Databases." Being months old, it's somewhat out of date now but still useful for getting an overview of how XML can be put to work. Anyone new to XML may have missed it when it first came out.The url is

http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DVS1/staff/bourret/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm

Michael Palmer Zurich Biostatistics, Inc. www.zbi.net