For those of you who don't realize what XML is, I will attempt to explain it. I'll give you an example. We have a Cerdian database on our mainframe with all of our hr stuff on it. We have our user info in LDAP. We have another database for our helpdesk. We have yet a third for our website. XML (and related technologies like DTD and XSL) allow us to a single web interface to do everything. We can create a user account on the web site which then updates LDAP, HR, and the helpdesk. The web site can, on each employees personal home page, display their home address, office address, user id, access permissions, mail stop, phone number, and open trouble tickets. XML makes every talk to everything else. For those of you who don't think its a big deal, I guess you didn't sign up for any of those free Yahoo shares either, huh????