Does <!ELEMENT resourceData (#PCDATA) > permit markup as content? Section 2.4 of XML 1.0 appears to me to suggest otherwise. It looks as though '<' must be escaped. So my earlier example for Thomas was in error. The content model in the DTD would have to become <!ELEMENT resourceData ANY > Ick. -- Peter On 29 Jun 2003 at 14:20, Kal Ahmed wrote: [...]