Thanks, Paul; you made my day!

Phil: I also started looking for a replacement for openXml. One suggestion was to use nodes, but in our system we have a variety of xml formats coming in for various requests, and they have different tags. The nice thing about openxml is that you don't need to know the tag names in your xml ahead of time; it gives them to you in the edge table. So, I second Phil's question: Does anyone know of a better alternative to producing the edge table?