I've read almost every that's been sent to the gutvol-d list in the recent burst of messages. I think it may be worthwhile trying to place everything that's been said in the larger perspective... Throughout much of its history, PG as an organization has been open to posting texts with formatting details or additional file formats done as volunteers wished to contribute them. Some examples of closed, propriatory formats (such as .prc and .lit) can be even found. This freedom has led to a wonderful array of inconsistencies and differences of approach which are probably most fully realized only by those who try to analyze, or convert large portions of the PG collection. (At least a few people involved in these recent discussions fall into that catagory.) I would argue that if we go about posting various people's implementations of markup using XML, we risk forming an increasingly incompatible jumble of formats. Andrew