The Element type is a simple but flexible container object, designed to store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets, in memory. The ElementTree package provides a Python implementation of this type, plus code to serialize element trees to and from XML files. ElementTree 1.2.6 is a maintenance release, consisting of 1.2.5 plus a fix for proper expansion of entities defined in internal DTD:s, minor fixes in the HTML parser, and proper serialization also if Python's default encoding has been changed. You can get the ElementTree package from: http://effbot.org/downloads#elementtree Documentation, code samples, and pointers to articles about the Element- Tree package are available from: http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm enjoy /F