Hi Lars, >I see no XML problem with your code so I assume that this is caused by the JDK >1.3 and/or an internal ozone database error. Falko? thank you for your reply ... but as I recognized yesterday, it's my fault (MEA CULPA 8)= )... I forget to include some jars from the ozone/bin-directory (I don't use the ojvm-script) Bye ... Fred