FYI, those people who had to set ZOPE_SECURITY_POLICY to PYTHON are advised to apply the following Patch for 2.5's cAccessControl.c module and see if it helps. As far as I can see, it solves the Zope 2.5 problems reported by Martijn Faassen with ParsedXML. -- Matt Kromer Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ Index: cAccessControl.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs-repository/Zope/lib/python/AccessControl/cAccessControl.c,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 cAccessControl.c --- cAccessControl.c 11 Jan 2002 17:14:27 -0000 1.13 +++ cAccessControl.c 1 Feb 2002 17:27:31 -0000 @@ -1703,6 +1703,7 @@ Py_DECREF(r); r = self->__roles__; if (r == NULL) goto err; + Py_INCREF(r); } /*|