Mehashah, > How can we desirialize xml attributes such as > <foo attributeA=a attributeB=b attributeC=c > > </foo> This xml fragment above is not section 5 compliant; so I'd suggest that you use the LITERAL XML encoding to obtain a DOM; and then work off the DOM to get the attributes. Jungfrau ___________________________________________________________________________ Visit http://www.visto.com. Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the enterprise with Visto.