Finally I made it till the end, thanks to your very quick replies. I hope I didn't bother you too much with all the mails. At last I'd like to give a summary of all the changes been made to the files of the "HaXml" release. Perhaps you'll find this information usefull for further releases. system configuration: - Win NT 4.0 - cygwin 1.1.8 - ghc 4.08.2 - hmake 2.02 ;) - HaXml 1.01 The Makefile and the DtdToTypesDefPP.hs were changed. changes to Makefile: line 51: cd lib; hmake XmlLib.hs changed to cd lib; hmake XmlLib.hs -package lang line 53: cd lib; hmake Haskell2Xml.hs -> cd lib; hmake Haskell2Xml.hs -package lang -package text line 55: cd lib; hmake Xml2Haskell.hs -> cd lib; hmake Xml2Haskell.hs -package lang line 61: cd tools; hmake DtdToHaskell $(INC) mv tools/DtdToHaskell . -> cd tools; hmake DtdToHaskell -i../lib -package lang mv tools/DtdToHaskell.exe . line 65: cd examples; hmake Canonicalise $(INC) mv examples/Canonicalise . -> cd examples; hmake Canonicalise -i../lib -package lang mv examples/Canonicalise.exe . line 69: cd tools; hmake Xtract $(INC) mv tools/Xtract . -> cd tools; hmake Xtract -i../lib -package lang mv tools/Xtract.exe . line 74: mv tools/DrIFT/DrIFT . -> mv tools/DrIFT/DrIFT.exe . changes to DtdToTypesDefPP.hs: line 510: commaList = hcat . intersperse comma -> -- commaList = hcat . intersperse comma