Malcolm, FYI. I've completed and tested the restructuring of parameter entity handling I described previously. Some additional conformance test cases now pass, though a couple that did pass now fail. (These are non-well-formed test cases that the parser doesn't recognize as such. I've made a decision not to try and catch every non-well-formed case that still makes sense as an XML document.) I've also got relative file access working properly for external entity access (i.e. relative to the referring file rather than the program's "current directory") I've also generalized the external entity access to support HTTP, but that's not yet tested. I think these represent the extent of changes I intend to make that affect the existing core HaXml code. The remaining functions (GE substitution, namespace processing, etc) I hope to implement as filters rather than changes to the core code. Do you want to think about preparing a new release? I'll bundle up the code when I've tested the HTTP access. #g -- PS: I just remembered, I also need to check out that external DTD subset handling works properly with the revised external entity handling. ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact