Hi Hans (and others), First, here is a small patch for verb-xml that fixes some wrong highlighting within attribute values, for the equals sign and the semicolon. Spotted by Mojca. Second, it would be nice if you could extend the \setuptyping command in such a way that the special handlers can receive options themselves (see the thread about namespaces). Something like this would be cool: \setuptyping[XML][option=namespaces] % doesn't work This does not work, because it is an 'unknown' option, and therefore it is treated as a pretty handler. And an undefined pretty handler at that, so the highlighting reverts to TEX style. In fact, \setuptyping[XML][option=JS] makes \startXML behave like \startJS, which is cute but somewhat silly ;-) I know I could easily create a verb-namespaces.tex, but it would be much nicer to have these really small options in-lined (also for things like visible spaces etc.). Is that doable? Cheers, Taco