text: Frank,\n\nI will assume you want to read an XML file avaialble at a URL (which can be file://...) and that you want to extract information from the XML file. I can recommend the dom4j library (http://www.dom4j.org/). With dom4j you can simply write:\n\nSAXReader reader = new SAXReader();\nDocument document = reader.read(url);\n\nYou then have a document object that represents your XML document. You can navigate that object using the Dom4j API.\n\nI hope this helps,\n\nAlex\n-- \nBlog (XML, Web apps, Open Source):\nhttp://www.orbeon.com/blog/