I thought one can register various setups and then when setting up the processing of the root tag call them into being with: \xmlregisteredsetups (according to the docs "applies all global setups to the current document) But doing this as in: \startxmlsetups xml:doc:roottag xmlregisteredsetups ... I get instead the error: ! Undefined control sequence. \xmlregisteredsetups ...arttiming \xmlflushsetups \xmldefaulttotext \xmldocu... \@@su:xml:dvdcase:dvd #1->\xmlregisteredsetups Hans van der Meer