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> Most examples in the book do not include such a declaration and yet are > properly rendered by Internet Explorer. > Is it mandatory and why is it that Expat crashes on it? It's not mandatory but it's probably good practice to make the document self-contained. The xlink prefix is defined in the DTD but Expat, as a nonvalidating parser, won't fetch it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list