i think i have a workaround for this (magnus hasn't got back to me yet, but i'm assuming that it must have worked for him). basically, the international character problem appears to effect only the toString() method (rather than the ouput() method). i believe that this is inherited from the GenericElement class. my workaround was to replace the ByteArrayOutputStream with a StringWriter. i'm not too sure about the real reason for this problem and also not sure whether this would be a good way to fix this for ever. comments? ideas? - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
