Hi Hans, I'm currently building up a new tree, based on your minimal system. Everything works fine, except figure inclusion from data bases. I finally traced it down to the following typo(s) (x-fig-00.tex | x-fig-04.tex) : \def\dogetfigurefilename#1% {\ifx\figurefilename\empty \bgroup \xdef\figurefilebasepath{#1}% \assignfullfilename{#1}\figurefilebase\to\filename \expanded{\processXMLfilegrouped{\filename.xml}}% \ifx\figurefilename\empty\else \globallet\figurefilebase\figurefilebase ^^^^ should be \filename, else the path to the database pdf is missing \fi \egroup \fi} Greetings, Peter