SSML and not the Speech Synthesis Markup Language that is officially recognized by more than the people who created it... Oh no! This is StoreSense Markup Language created by the fine folks at [explicative deleted]. Get this... according to a post at http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.3bc0ef1d, the folks at [explicative deleted] claim they created it... what's more, somebody on the adobe forums state that when they asked the staff at [explicative deleted], they were told that [explicative deleted] doesn't know how it works... I was unable to find a DTD for it anywhere on their site and when a client of mine had issues because they couldn't be spidered by several different services I turned to the good ol' W3C... I have never seen the validator at W3C laugh so hard or die so horribly as they did on this site. One look at the URLs contained within and I knew it wasn't up to RFC 3986 specifications. After my client contacted them about various things that needed to be fixed in order to 'play nice' with the rest of the web (like using real URLs, y'know RFC 3986), they retorted that the W3C validator looks for HTML which they don't use... They use SSML. Then why did I find a doctype declaration for HTML 4.01 Transitional on the site? Why does it appear to be malformed HTML (with some absolutely mind-blowing links if you dig RFC specs). Well, for the one host on the net that openly states that their system doesn't support HTML, I guess this is ok. Maybe someone should tell them that everywhere else on the net tries to somewhat use the same set of rules (with varying degrees of success, but at least in the ballpark). Maybe I should also create a language called SSML, but instead of Speech Synthesis or StoreSense... this will be called ShawnSnarski Markup Language. Instead of using iso-8859-1 or windows-1252, I'll use coffee to program it. Not a new language, but the bitter, warm, caffeine-enhanced brew that we all live on! Yes, that's it! I can code an entire website with nothing more than varieties of caffeine... HAH! Let's see W3C try to validate that one In your face, Timothy Berners-Lee!!! We don't need no stinkin' standards on something the size of the web. Everyone can make their own web language, then we can hand out copies of our own browser to support it. I think that if my SSML would be written using coffee, Mountain Dew, and Jolt, then my browser would have be coded in a new dialect of Bear-Claw. Yup, that's it. Just plug it in, enter the URL of qwerty://bulah!-#bulah%%*^ into your Bear-Claw and away you go. Jolt-city, baby!