> is there a way to get rid of '\n' and '\t' characters > from xml files easily.
You can read the entire file as a string then apply standard string replace functionality to substitute an empty string.. HTH, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor