> http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php#80855 maybe? Thanks for that. I guess I should have scrolled a little further down. It's so crazy that it works that way. Unless you export the actual element (and not it's ancestors), you don't see the data at all. thnx, Christoph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php