Hi, first of all, I have to say that I really like soupparser. Thanks a lot for it. I use it a lot data mining on a somewhat large document collection that I often revisit to try new ideas. Soupparser is fast but I put a lot of strain on it so I was looking for ways to speed things up. My first idea was to use beaker to cache the root Element object of every document to disk. Unfortunately, Element instances are not pickleable so I have to look for something else. Would any of you have some tips to share on speeding things up with soupparser? How hard would it be to make elements conform to the pickling protocol? -- Yannick Gingras http://ygingras.net http://confoo.ca -- track coordinator http://montrealpython.org -- lead organizer