That's seems to be a bug, the 'text' value is not set after you change or add an individual value.
Try the following instead as a work around: Map values = new HashMap(pi.getValues()); values.put("name", "value"); pi.setValues(values); Regards, Edwin -- http://www.edankert.com/ Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user