We have interesting technologies available. It would be relatively trivial to devise an XML Schema that would support fields by name, with attributes including the control block in which they resided, their offsets, means of access of the control block, field characteristics, etc.
It's the sort of thing that, e.g., the Hercules group would be well suited for. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

