Head Geek wrote: > > The goodness or badness of the data model is irrelevant to the > advantages or disadvantages of the syntax of GEDCOM vs. XML. GEDCOM is both a syntax *and* a data model. > But the goodness or badness of the data model is a more important > issue than the syntactic carrier. Agreed. But it follows that if one wants to improve on the data model then the syntactic carrier should also be up for reconsideration. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk