Sorry, my fault. Just found out that the attribute sought is residing in another tree. Understandably the attribute is not found when the wrong root is taken. Thus \attributedef does its thing. Now I have to find out how reference that other tree. Hans van der Meer On 14 mrt. 2012, at 15:24, Meer, H. van der wrote: Processing xml I get with: \writestatus{************}{\xmlattributedef{#1}{.}{default}{???}} output: ************ > ??? and \writestatus{************}{\xmlattribute{#1}{.}{default}} has no attribute output but with: \writestatus{************}{\xmlattdef{#1}{default}{???}} output: ************ > mydefault Is something amiss with \xmlattribute and \xmlattributedef? I need these in order to get an attribute from a node higher up in the xml-tree. Hans van der Meer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nlmailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________