Hi Hans, the issue I described in a previous message with extra space with footnote is related to XML handling: \startbuffer[demo] <doc> <p>Text <a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1">¹</a> and <a href="#fn2" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref2">²</a> </p> <div class="footnotes"> <hr /> <ol> <li id="fn1"><p>this is a footnote</p> <p>this is a footnote</p> <p>this is a footnote</p> <a class="footnoteBack" href="#fnref1">↩</a></li> <li id="fn2"><p>A second footnote.<a class="footnoteBack" href="#fnref2">↩</a></p></li> </ol> </div> </doc> \stopbuffer \starttext \startxmlsetups xml:initialize \xmlsetsetup{#1}{doc|p}{xml:*} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a[@class='footnoteRef']}{xml:footnote:ref} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{div[@class='footnotes']}{} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a[@class='uri']}{xml:autolink} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a[@class='footnoteBack']}{} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a[text()='↩']}{} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:initialize} \startxmlsetups xml:doc \setuppapersize[A8] \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:p \xmldoifnotselfempty {#1} { \dontleavehmode \ignorespaces \xmlflush{#1} \removeunwantedspaces } \par \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:footnote:set \startfootnote \xmlflush{#1} \stopfootnote \stopxmlsetups \startluacode local gsub = string.gsub function xml.expressions.idstring(str) return type(str) == "string" and gsub(str,"^#","") or "" end \stopluacode \startxmlsetups xml:footnote:ref \xmlfilter{main}{div[@class='footnotes']/ol/li[@id=idstring('\xmlatt{#1}{href}')]/command(xml:footnote:set)} \stopxmlsetups \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{demo}{} \stoptext Beta from 2015.03.28 16:30 adds an unwanted empty paragraph after each footnote. Previous beta from 2015.03.25 22:13 added no extra space. Is this a bug or how should I change my definition of xml:p? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk