I apologize for the tone of exasperation in my reply to Chris Lilley. I thought from something that he said in his post that he had read all the messages in the thread, and it turns out that he hadn't. My mistake. Jon --- Jon Bosak, Online Information Technology Architect Sun Microsystems, 2550 Garcia Ave., MPK17-101, Mountain View, CA 94043 Davenport Group::SGML Open::ANSI X3V1::ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8::W3C SGML ERB