Well I got Blackhole to work though I'll still be posting a few suggestions and questions later. I used it to import and use sxml>>xml successfully. It gives me output like ><P >P5There seems to be nothing to say. <S />After a while he stammers, "Oh, I'm sorry," to fill the silence.</P ><P >P3</P instead of the more conventional <P> P5There seems to be nothing to say. <S/>After a while he stammers, "Oh, I'm sorry," to fill the silence.</P> <P> P3</P> Is there a technical reason to have the '>' after the newline and the indentation layout instead of before them? Or is this just the way it happened to get coded? (Don't worry about the P5There and such -- my application put them there by mistake and I'll be dealing with them myself) -- hendrik