Actually, I realized just after I sent this that if I took the required part out and called it validwhen instead, you end up with a true general purpose validation tool! So that's the one I'm proposing. Basically, if you had a field lastName that was required if firstName was filled in, you say:
((lastName != null) or (firstName == null)) I.e., the field is valid if it isn't null, or the firstName field is null. This means you can generate an error on a field based solely on the values of other fields. James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
