Steve Holden: "I don't know what news reader you are using, but I wonder if I could ask you to retain just a little more context in your posts. If they were personal emails I would probably be able to follow the thread, but in a newsgroup it's always helpful when I see a comment such as your above if I know what the heck you are talking about ;-)."
I'm using Google Groups. I'd assumed it maintains quoting, but I guess not. Looks as if I'll have to ditch it, which makes things awkward because I don't have time to follow this NG in its entirety: I prefer to just search weekly for "Python XML". --Uche -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list