Greetings all, The document element exported by this small example appears to be prematurely closed. Removing either the footnote or the second chapter will hide the problem. Do I have something wrong here? Thanks, Matt \setupbackend[export=yes] \starttext \startchapter \startsection \startparagraph \footnote{a footnote} \stopparagraph \stopsection \stopchapter \startchapter \stopchapter \stoptext mtx-context | current version: 2012.04.02 12:51 <document language="en" file="problem" date="04/03/12 11:42:51" context="2012.04 .02 12:51" version="0.30" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <section detail="chapter" location='aut:1'> <sectionnumber>1</sectionnumber> <sectioncontent> <section detail="section" location='aut:2'> <sectionnumber>1.1</sectionnumber> <sectioncontent> <paragraph><descriptionsymbol detail="footnote"><sup>1</sup></paragraph> <description detail="footnote"> <descriptiontag><sup>1</sup> </descriptiontag> <descriptioncontent>a footnote</descriptioncontent> </description> </sectioncontent> </section> </sectioncontent> </section> </document> <section detail="chapter" location='aut:4'> <sectionnumber>2</sectionnumber> </section>