Why didn't I think of that...oh well, I guess that's why you get paid the big bucks.

I considered whether this use is a viable feature request for the repository moving forward. I guess it would only apply if you had multiple repositories on a page and desired for users to be able to efficiently add content to them through one main easy to use interface .  Not sure how many folks have a scenario such as this. 

I'm kinda new at coding but this is a good place for me to get baptised.  I like the xml approach to do the filtering.  I'll get the proper dev environment set up and give it a try. 

Thanks once again for all your help.

Paul