I've added support for Serialization to CVS, its also available in the current daily build. This means that dom4j Documents or document fragments can be used within RMI and EJB scenarios with ease. Note that Java Serialization is very slow, currently its about 2-5 times slower than using the XML text format via XMLWriter or SAXReader so we recommend whenever in doubt to send XML around as text rather than via serialization. In due course we'll optimise the Java Serialization implementation so that its at least as fast as using the XML text format (even if under the covers we use the text format directly). James _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev