> Yes thanks I had forotten about dive into python, the reminder is timely. > > i'd like to be able to do something like > > For each xml series entity return series_id
Well, as I said, the link you gave appears to be broken (please check it) so I cannot comment further. I suspect you will be fine with the built-in tools, but Jim's suggestion of Beautiful Soup is worth looking at, as well as ElementTree by Fredrik Lundh. I prefer to use what's "in the box" before looking elsewhere, if only because it's one less thing to fetch and set up. Best wishes, Andrew
