= "Mike Norris" <mnorris@hea.ie> writes: = * = * Good idea, Ambrose. I presume the asterisk is a = * place-holder and will appear in the case of attributes = * that are neither look-up nor inverse keys? = =Yes. The aim is to make the output easier to read. I =suppose an "-" character or a blank space could be used =instead. I will think about it. I'd ask you to come up with a somewhat consistent format. A blank by itself doesn't sound like a good idea from the SW engineering point of view. How about having the brackets anyway, but no tag inside, or a hyphen, or an asterisk. I think it would be easier to parse in the end, if we can expect a constant number of (non-blank :-) fields. Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4065822 355 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4065822 170 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : NIC: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------