I'm aware that the actual name of the project doesn't matter! What I tried to get across was that if I follow the instruction for installing a JAXP compatible parser found at: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document2558?OpenDocument&SubMast I have to create open editions of the IBM's packages: org.xml.sax org.xml.sax.helpers which are part of the project "IBM XML Parser for Java 2.0.15". However, if I leave out *all* the packages starting with "org" when importing parser.jar I don't have to do that and it still works! What are the ramifications, if any, of doing that? Respectfully, S. Bro _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.