Hi Marc! Well, it's not really a bug IMHO because if you require your server to parse html documents, you should not enable short_open_tag else you will face the problem you reported with each valid xhtml or xml document... and they are more and more. Loïc ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif