Hi Joseph, Uma Shinde replied earlier with a method to suppress that XML header. it is: <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
As for why I would like to do so, this is because I need to concatenate a bunch of xml files together with some manual additions. I guess there's a better way to do what I want to do, but I'm being lazy... Hanaa Barakat "The best laid plans of mice and men oft' gang aglay..." -Robert Burns Joseph Kesselman/CAM/Lotus@Lotus on 10/23/2001 10:17:09 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: outputting xml without the xml header tag I don't think we currently have a way to suppress the XML Declaration, other than by switching to HTML or Text output modes. Curiousity: Why do you want to do so? Any XML application should be able to handle the header just fine, and I believe the version we're generating is also appropriate as a Text Declaration for external entities. And in most cases it really is safer for a file to explicitly state what encoding it uses.
