Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on?

[Schmidt]

I am still thinking about a Yahoo widget XML to JSON or XML to FRM converter ...

If I convert to JSON then I can use Cairo's natural abilities to read JSON and hopefully speed the layout/conversion process.

An XML to JSON conversion-step is not necessary, because RC6 comes with a decent XML-ParserClass -> cSimpleDOM
usage:
Dim DOM As cSimpleDOM
Set DOM = New_c.SimpleDOM(MyXMLFileName, True) 'instantiate and init from a given File

If you upload such an XML-File (perhaps zipped along with the resource-png-filelocations it probably refers to inside),
I could show you an example how to build a Widget-Tree from it.

You also mentioned XML-descriptions/layer-positioning, generated from inside PhotoShop somewhere -
if that is "even more preferrable" than the old Yahoo-XML-descriptions - then post that instead...

Olaf