Hmm, Do you know about JSON and YAML? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML
They have the advantage of being maintained by a group of people and being available for a number of languages. (as well as NOT being XML :-) - Cheers, Paddy. -- http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
