Hi, I am currently benchmarking XML-RPC with different XML parsers. XMLParser is generally very fast, but using the SimpleTreeParser for a XML document that contains for example only one tag with a large amount of data (base64 encoded) the time needed is inacceptable. If I double the size of the document it takes five times longer. I guess, there must be any regular expressions that are applied onto the large text, but I am not sure. Any hints? Regards, Michael -- Michael Neumann merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH http://www.merlin-zwo.de