On Friday 23 July 2004 05:10 pm, Hashemian, Mehdi wrote: > fileName = "orig.xml" > file = open(fileName, 'r') I'm not sure if this is it, but any time you open an XML file to pass to a parser, it should be opened in binary mode: file = open(fileName, 'rb') -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>