Hi, I have been successfully using XPath to parse some data from my XML docs for quite a while. Now I have a document that uses namespaces. And I can't get a grip on how to address my data any more. Does anyone know how to solve the following problem? Any help appreciated. Cheers, André ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <?php // no namespaces - no trouble $xml1 = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'. '<ITCL type="TestDefinition" />'; $dom1 = domxml_open_mem($xml1); $xpc1 = xpath_new_context($dom1); $attrib1 = xpath_eval($xpc1, "/ITCL/@type"); $type1 = $attrib1->nodeset[0]->value; print "Type1: $type1\n"; // using namespaces I am lost // without the "xmlns" attribute, this also works fine $xml2 = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'. '<ITCL xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"' <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance%22'> . ' xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.imbp.de/schema/xsd/itcl' <http://api.imbp.de/schema/xsd/itcl'> . ' http://api.imbp.de/schema/xsd/itcl"' <http://api.imbp.de/schema/xsd/itcl%22'> . ' xmlns="http://api.imbp.de/schema/xsd/itcl"' <http://api.imbp.de/schema/xsd/itcl%22'> . ' type="TestDefinition" />'; $dom2 = domxml_open_mem($xml2); $xpc2 = xpath_new_context($dom2); $attrib2 = xpath_eval($xpc2, "/ITCL/@type"); $type2 = $attrib2->nodeset[0]->value; print "Type2: $type2\n"; ?>