For a while now I''ve been looking around for a document that describes how a document is meant to be ''well formed'' so I can make some assumptions in my parser. What I''m looking for is something that says that : -These are valid characters for a Element name. -Text between braces means X -Attributes cant have spaces either side of the = etc... something to that level of granularity... I''ve been all over www.xml.org still to no avail... Many thanks Chris Brodie http:\\fourth.flipcode.com

I think you''re looking for Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0. It''s currently a W3C recommendation.

Hope that helps.