After a lot of experimenting I finally succeeded including a file with thw \xmlinclude macro. The next hurdle is how to extend the xml tree with its xml contents (if that is possibl, of course). Thus the main file being: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <main> .. </main> I would like to extend the tree starting with node <main> with subnodes coming from included xml-files: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <subtree>..</subtree> Then execute \xmlall on the subtree's. Of course another route (I have already explored) is to call \xmlprocessfile for the subtree's. But then I found I cannot retrieve other elements from <main> while processing the independent subtree. And that is just what I aimed for. I would appreciate your help. Hans van der Meer On 4 jan. 2012, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote:

I would like to include files with the following input xml-file

<root>

In the xmlsetup for <file> I thought to place a call to \xmlinclude:

\startxmlsetups xml:file \xmlinclude{#1}{.}{location} \stopxmlsetups