Hi -t, 
you wrote:
>I wanna be able to use my little database as the basis for a shopping
>cart, or to convert it to xml, but am not sure about how to handle
>nested blocks.

db: [ 
  [id-1 "name-1" {description-1}]
  [id-2 "name-2" {description-2}]
  [id-3 "name-3" {description-3}]
  [id-4 "name-4" {description-4}]
  [id-5 "name-5" {description-5}]
]

set [id name description] third db

foreach [id name description] db [
  if id = some-id [print [name newline description]]
]

db: [ 
  id-1 ["name-1" {description-1}]
  id-2 ["name-2" {description-2}]
  id-3 ["name-3" {description-3}]
  id-4 ["name-4" {description-4}]
  id-5 ["name-5" {description-5}]
]

print db/id-1

print select db id-2

print next find db id-1

Elan


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