Hi Well you are seem to be right, the specification at http://xmldb.org/xupdate/xupdate-wd.html#N6d2633
and the use cases (which I often use for reference) http://www.xmldatabases.org/projects/XUpdate-UseCases/#10 are only showing update of single a text node. You can do a workaround for your task, by combining two xupdate commands <xu:modifications version="1.0" xmlns:xu="http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate";> <xu:remove select="/page/paragraph[1]/*"></xu:update> <xu:append select="/page/paragraph[1]"><text>Test</text></xu:update> </xu:modifications> regards
