>From the Wikipedia... "A markup language is a kind of text encoding that represents text as well as details about the structure and appearance of the text." http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language "A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. It is a set of syntactic and semantic rules used to define computer programs. A language enables a programmer to precisely specify what kinds of data a computer will act upon, and precisely what actions to take under various circumstances." http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language I think that encapsulates it quite nicely! .steve ######################## http://www.cookstour.org ########################