The reason Poi_Loader didn't work for what you needed it for is that it was designed with a completely different purpose in mind.

It normally takes one of gpx,tomtom,garmin,kml or geocache files (none of which support categories) and after asking for a category uses gpsbabel to convert them to gpx and then the app converts to mmp files ( wich is just a gpx with the category in sym tags ) for future use. You can also, by the way, dump the entire poi.db to an mmp for reloading in the future.

It was just luck that it semi-matched the above requirements.

There is no xml support in VB so all the xml translation is parsed within the app ( Thats where I removed linefeeds and also why the app wouldn't expect a linefeed in an mmp ).

I've now seen the light and I am programming in Python by preference

PS I'm not being defensive here just explaining.