On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 21:06, SER wrote: > That's your problem. Oops... next time I'll try to RTFM more :( Thanks for the explanation, and sorry for making the noise. > Actually, it is my problem; REXML shouldn't allow > you to create an element with a tag name that has illegal characters in > it I'm not really sure if this is a good idea or a bad one, but perhaps this might be a feature? If the tag name passed to the constructor is not a valid tag name, but is on the other hand a well-formed XML, then parse it. Brgds, Alex