hi Phlip, thank you for the hint. I did it already, but I was wondering if there is some hidden option that did it for me. Is my assumption correct that the class not documentated very good? After googling for some time I only found something that appeared to be outdated. That why I eventually posted my question here. Is using libxml the right thing to do to, or are there smarter alternatives? thanks, Ruud On 29/07/2008, Phlip <phlip2005 / gmail.com> wrote: > ruud grosmann wrote: > >> I don't want XML::Document to resolve the URL and waiting for a >> timeout. I couldn't find anything in the documentation on this. > > Use string surgery to yank out the DOCTYPE. > >