You missed the point. After you've agreed on XML, you still have to agree on how to represent a list. No I didn't. Because that's exactly what the guy in the O

You missed the point. After you've agreed on XML, you still have to agree on how to represent a list. No I didn't. Because that's exactly what the guy in the OP said. Agree on a XML schema for the data. After you've done that, writing some simple Xpath to get your data is done in minutes. The only times my XML code is 100% DOM is when I need to make things from scratch or do XML data manipulation.