> that's a myth. in private correspondence, dave has always been 100% > clear that an XML-RPC string can contain anything that's allowed by XML. In public, Dave said "oops, I goofed" and said he never meant to be ascii-only. Dave refuses to write anything approaching a rigorous spec, so you never really know ... /r$ -- Zolera Systems, http://www.zolera.com Information Integrity, XML Security