I've committed changes to 4DOM and minidom that should change no prefix form '' to None. I have not had time to check wether this has an impact on xml.xpath/xml.xslt. Cheers, Alexandre Fayolle -- LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Narval, the first software agent available as free software (GPL).