han.holl / pobox.com (Han Holl) wrote in message news:<b93fa83f.0402220318.34dae140 / posting.google.com>... > Hi, > > The following program: .... > produces: > > <item rnum='1'/> > <item rnum='1:abc'/> > > Is this correct? I would have expected only the first item to be returned. Nope. That's a bug. Thanks for finding that; in the future, you might want to post the bug to the REXML bug page; I'm not reliable about reading this newsgroup. --- SER