Hi, the xml parser fails on attribute list settings in xml files. %%%% begin example \startbuffer[jmdict] <!DOCTYPE JMdict [ <!ATTLIST lsource xml:lang CDATA "eng"> ]> <JMdict> </JMdict> \stopbuffer \starttext \startluacode local jmdict = lxml.loadbuffer("","jmdict",false) inspect(jmdict) \stopluacode \stoptext %%%% end example Wolfgang