Well I was kinda cheating before. I was reading the SCPD xml from a file and returning it directly when asked by a control point. Well after 4 more hours of work tonite, I now actually parse it, create the C++ objects and when being asked, I reformat the XML on the fly. Very neat! .. I just noticed some problems with my parser though, it doesn’t know how to pass comments! And also, it doesn’t like it when the xml has the header < ?xml version=1.0?> , it seems to barf .. will have to fix that soon…