I've uploaded Version 2.29 of XML::Parser to CPAN. This is a maintenance release. Here's the relevant part of the Changes log: 2.29 Sun May 21 21:19:45 EDT 2000 - In expat, notation declaration handler registration wasn't surviving through external entity references. - Chase Tingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> discovered that text accumulation in the Stream style wasn't working across processing instructions and recommended the appropriate fix. - Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, noted that you couldn't use ExpatNB directly because it wasn't setting the protective _State_ variable. Now doing this in the parse_more method of ExpatNB. - At the suggestion of Grant Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, now calling the env_proxy method on the LWP::UserAgent in the LWP external entity handler when it's created to set any proxies from environment variables. - Grant McLean, Matt Sergeant (& others I may have missed) noted that loading the LWP & URI modules slowed startup of the module, even if the application didn't need it. The default LWP handler is now dynamicly loaded (along with LWP & URI modules) the first time an external entity is referenced. Also provided a NoLWP option to XML::Parser that forces the file based external entity handler. - Fixed allocation errors in element declaration patches in expat - The Expat base method now works, even before expat starts parsing. - Changed the canonical script to take an optional file argument. - Enno Derksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported that the attlist handler was not returning NOTATION type attlist information. - Michel Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, noted that the constructor for XML::Parser objects no longer checked for the existence of applications installed external entity handlers before installing the default ones. - Burkhard Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent in a fix for compiler directives in Expat/Makefile.PL for Win32 machines. A change in 5.6.0 caused the old conditional to fail. - Forgot to document changes to the Entity declaration handler: there is an additional "IsParam" argument that indicates whether or not the entity is a parameter entity. This information is no longer passed on in the name. - Ben Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported an undefined macro with version 5.004_04. -- Clark Cooper Software Engineer Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schenectady, NY USA Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]