On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:00:30 +0100, JS wrote: ><!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "/xmldb/system/dtd/test.dtd" Both here and in your call to the parse() method, try to use "file://" URLs. That might work. Ciao, J=FCrgen -- J=FCrgen Hermann, Developer WEB.DE AG, http://webde-ag.de/