I posted a question recently about whether an XMLDocument could render the entire content of a specific XML tag. The situation I encountered involved the inclusion of HTML-ish markup (<p>, <br>, etc.) contained inside of another tag. For example: <entry> <question><p>To be or not to be?</p></question> </entry> Using the text_content('question') method resulted in no content being returned. In looking at the Node object, I noticed a method called toXML. Turns out that toXML is almost what I want, except that it produces the XML for the entire object. Using toXML and text_content as examples, I added the following code to the Node class in Node.py to facilitate returning XML content for a specific child node (one level deep): def nodeToXML(self, name=None, RESPONSE=None): """ Answer the XML for the specified child node name. If no node is specified, answer the XML for the entire node. """ if name is None: return self.toXML(self, 1, RESPONSE) else: result = "" for child in self: if child.getNodeName() == name: result = result + child.toXML() return result Used on XML such as above, the result of doing nodeToXML('question') would be "<p>To be or not to be?</p>" James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103