> You need to set preserveWhiteSpace(true) or > something similar to your XML parser (Xerces, MSXML...) > and force it not to do pretty printing.
Or, even better, change this line: getElementsbyTagName.item(0).getFirstChild().getValue() into: getElementsbyTagName("MyElement").item(0).getElementsbyTagName("MyOtherElement").item(0).getValue() In other words reference elements with getElementsbyTagName(), not with getFirstChild(). Hope it helps, Milan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com