Hi, I 've got a lot of files which I need to proces in order to make them indexable by sphinx. The files contain the data of a website with a custom perl based cms. Unfortunatly they sometimes contain xml/html tags like <i> And since most of the texts are in dutch and some are in French they also contain a lot of special characters like ë é, ... I'm trying to replace the custom based perl based cms by a haskell one. And I would like to add search capability. Since someone wrote sphinx bindings a few weeks ago I thought I try that. But transforming the files in something that sphinx seems a challenge. Most special character problems seem to go aways when I use encodeString (Codec.Binary.UTF8.String) on the indexable data. But the sphinx indexer complains that the xml isn't valid. When I look at the errors this seems due to some documents containing not well formed html. I would like to use a programmatic solution to this problem. And is there some haskell function which converts special tokens lik & -> & and é -> &egu; ? thanks in advance, Pieter -- Pieter Laeremans "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." W. Gibson