hi, I couldn't see this mentioned anywhere so I thought I mention it if you change a cdata using "node.nodeValue = xxxx" no DOMCharacterDataModified event is generated if you do "node.data = xxxxx" the event is generated properly Is this a bug or a feature? From reading the stuff at w3c I expected "node.nodeValue = xxxx " to generate an event nb i'm using python 2.0 and pyxml 6.3 rob