At 02:36 PM 7/24/2002 -0500, Mario Felarca wrote: ARGH...sorry, last immediate followup to my original post. I forgot to mention versions. Xalan is 2.4D1, Xerces is 2.0.2. JDOM is both the B8 and what I compiled from CVS yesterday. Java is 1.3.1_03. Thanks, Mario