I cannot get rid of the whiteline that \xmldisplayverbatim generates before its output. Changing to other \xmldisplay macro's did not change this. How to get rid of the whitespace? MWE: \startxmlsetups hvdm:docs:texcode abc\crlf \xmlstripnolines{#1}{.}% <- with or without: no change \xmldisplayverbatim{#1} \stopxmlsetups result, see the empty lines between abc and the \new.. dr. Hans van der Meer