Thanks for the reply David. I know what you mean about the tagging.

The problem is that the XML uses just the <p> for a lot of parts of the body. It is used for paras that are full out, paras with indents, quotes etc. so I have to apply styles to them.

Another annoying thing is that they use the title tag for all headings. So I have to look at its attributes in the structure pane and if its display-level has a value of 1, I need to apply my style head-a; if it has a value of 2, I apply head-b and so. So I can’ t avoid applying styles.

I think it is a serious bug that needs to be fixed. I do wish they fix it promptly as I am getting more and more books supplied in XML.

I miss the power of FrameMaker. The ability to write read/write rules for SGML puts ID to shame.

Cheers and thanks