Kel,

We have experimented with this again and again over all the years. But the problem is that there is simply no solution available to natively handle XML files on all Windows operation systems. In most cases it requires specific components (e.g. MSXML) and if they are not already available on the target machine then the installer has to do a multi-megabyte redistributable install before it can handle XML files.

We have tried different XML components and solutions, but it did not work reliable :-( INI file manipulation is directly supported from Windows (it's a core functionality), but XML is not :-(

Just curious, what do you use from your own application to read/write XML files programmatically? Do you have licensed a commercial component to handle it? Or are your using MSXML? What exactly do you have to do with XML files?

Thanks,
Friedrich