Hi, I need to determine whether a document lacks content. The doc may have body and paragraph tags but be empty. I've tried and failed, so I have 2 questions. 1) Is there an obvious way to do this that I'm overlooking? 2) Is my strategy OK? Here is what I've tried. - Get an HTMLDocument.Iterator for tag type HTML.Tag.CONTENT, from the Document returned by JEditorPane's getDocument method (inherited from JTextComponent), - Iterate through the tags using their getString methods to find text. Here is what happens. The first call to the iterator's isValid returns false. End of show. If I try other Tag types, for example TD (of which there are loads in a test doc) or BODY (which will be there even in empty documents) the iterator itself is null. What am I doing wrong? I'm using blackdown j2sdk1.3.0 on a Red Hat 7.1 system under kernel 2.4.7. Thanks, Dick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]