XML hackers mich be interested to note that I've checked some new XML API stuff into biojava-live. There's an extra package, org.biojava.utils.stax. It's basically a (very) lightweight extension of SAX which allows you to build modular event-based parsers rather than having to have everything go through a single ContentHandler. It was originally written as the lowest level of my new event-based parser for XFF, but having tried it out, I think it will be useful for handling all sorts of complex and modular XML formats. Let me know if you find this useful, Thomas. _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l