Are you referring to writing an xml-fragment? If you have an XmlObject, not the document, but a child object, you can certainly save it, and it would be marshalled as an xml-fragment. - Wing Yew
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:17 AM To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org Subject: Writing portions of an xml file Is there a way of writing just a portion of the xml? For example I want a piece that contains several tags, and also without any start/end tags. Thanks Daniel Or Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it.