Garrett Wollman wrote:

And there is no inherent virtue in XML. The current format has the benefit that it is easily parsed by both machines and humans, which would be much more difficult in any XML-based scheme.

Generally I have to agree, the current format serves the purpose for which is was designed. I will point out one small limitation: the comments are not really part of the structure, therefore if someone every wanted to deliver rules plus any of the interesting comments about each rule/zone/etc. in some type of object they could come close but would not get a completely useful set of organized comments in many cases. Meanwhile back to Andre-Tascha who started this thread. He is is not the first nor only person who wants just the current and future information and doesn't care about the historical information. Maybe someone could build an extract utility that could 'query' for a subset based on a date, producing another file in the same format. No, I'm not volunteering :-) Subset by large segment of the world is already available (sort of by continent in the various separate files). Are there other any other subsets that people commonly have been interested in? Has such a thing already been built? -Paul ----- Myriad Genetics: http://www.myriad.com/