Hi Folks, Late Night Software is pleased to announce the release of Universal versions of its freeware XML Tools and XSLT Tools scripting additions. XML Tools 2.9 allows AppleScript to easily parse and Generate XML data. Version 2.9 introduces native support for Intel Macintoshes. http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/XMLTools2/index.html XSLT Tools 2.1 allows AppleScript to apply XSL Stylesheets and to extract information from XML data using XPath expressions. Version 2.1 provides the following improvements: - Native support for Intel Macintoshes - Updated to Xerces-C 2.7 and Xalan-C 1.10 - A new sdef-based dictionary which includes example code - The 'extract from XML' command now accepts multiple XPath matching strings allowing for more complex XPath matching logic http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/XSLTTools/index.html The 'extract from XML' command is the real gem of the XSLT Tools package. It allows you to easily pull information from any XML file. Consider this simple example: set theXML to "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?> <data> <date>Monday, March 24, 2006</date> <performer name=\"Tom Jones\" /> <performer name=\"Alicia Keys\" /> <performer name=\"Jessie Winchester\" /> </data> " -- extract the <date> element value extract from xml theXML matching "/data/date" expression "text()" --> { "Monday, March 24, 2006" } -- extract the <performer> name attribute values extract from xml theXML matching "/data/performer" expression "@name" --> { --> "Tom Jones", --> "Alicia Keys", --> "Jessie Winchester" --> } Cheers -Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Alldritt Late Night Software Ltd. Phone: 250-380-1725 Script Debugger 4.0 - AppleScript IDE WEB: http://www.latenightsw.com/ FaceSpan 4.3 - AppleScript RAD Affrus 1.0 - Perl Debugging