OK, finally got the FopServlet to work, thanks for the help!!! My next problem is that my XML is not in a file. I will be reading it in from my database (where its stored as a blob) into a large String. Next I need to do something like an XSLTransform.transform to apply my XSL to the XML. What results should be my .FO file. Now I have tried this where the XML and XSL are files and programatically build the .FO file and this works but I need help with the following things: 1) Is XSLTransform.transform the best class method to use? 2) XSLTransform.transform accepts for the XML input either a xmlSource String or a org.w3c.dom.Document .... what I have is the entire XML in a String. Whats the best way to turn it into a Document? TIA Erich Kilmer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]