Hi, "Christopher W. Curtis" <ccurtis@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The nice thing about this is that it should be fully parseable by XML > parsers (up until the first NULL [1 is required, the rest are optional I don't think the format you proposed is valid XML. There might be XML parsers that are able to read it but it violates the spec. If I am wrong here, please show me where the spec defines the special role of the NULL character. Is there a special reason you dislike the idea of using an archive instead of a single XML file? I thought we would have been past this point already... Sven