just trying to figure out a way to list only entries that have been given a category. thanks!

Hi,
I haven't tested this, but you can give it a try! In theory, this would spit out entry titles if the category isn't blank. More info on MTIf here if it doesn't work: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/a...es/tags/if.html

<MTEntries>
<MTIf tag="EntryCategory">
<MTEntryTitle>
</MTIf>
</MTEntries>

I did test that and it does work.

Conversely, I needed all entries that didn't have a category -- or to be exact, all that had a specific category or were accidentally left blank. For that, I limited the results to the category or to things that matched the dumbest regular expression I ever wrote -- ^$, meaning the start & end of the category field, with nothing in the middle. If there's a better way to say, "empty field," feel free to tell me!