Saving Treeview / node.data and records

[StreamLine]

hey gang, hope everyone is well

I am developing an application management program (see screenshot below)

The problem I am having is to do with saving the settings or Treeview. I have googled and seen an example on about.com saving in the xml format but my xml knowledge is nil,

The goal is to beable to save the treenode to a single file along with the images. however (the big problem) i have assigned records to each node using the node.data (pointer to a record) in which contains unique information based on each node.

  type
	PAppItem   = ^TAppItem;
	TAppItem  = Record
	  sFileName	 :String;
	  sFilePath	 :String;
	  sCategory	 :TTreeNode;
	  cmdShow	   :Integer;
  end;

category nodes do not have this record assigned to it but application nodes do. Is it possible to save all this data?

[whoknows]

wh about @:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/TreeView_Serializer.aspx?display=Print

??

hf