Hi Henning, > My first attempt used DOM, but I get a cleaner, more readable, better > extendable code with SAX. If you want a cleaner coder, you give might one of the more "pythonic" XML APIs, like ElementTree or XIST a try. ElementTree: http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm XIST: http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/ ciao Martina