BTW wouldn't it be better to use Digester for parsing. It is faster (SAX no DOM), declarative, easy to use and you can do really complicated parsing implementing its interfaces.. And if you want both directions xml2java and java2xml, why not to use Castor? But I don't have big experienced with it. But I think it should be good solution.. Fero View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4213875#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...