Hello Oliver! I think another possibility could be for you to use JAXB to unmarshal your XML document into a java bean. Then you can use the following expression in your velocity template: $body.username
Please have a look on this test: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/camel/trunk/components/camel-velocity/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/velocity/VelocityBodyAsDomainObjectTest.java?view=markup and http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/camel/trunk/components/camel-velocity/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/velocity/BodyAsDomainObject.vm?view=markup Regards, Christian
