Hi Hans,

first thanks for your help at Epen, but reading the different documents 
I could not find out how to define a macro to get the value of a 
specific element of an xml-file.
Running your example I get all elements.

For example:
I wont to get the value of the first name for <person pid="66">

\def\getFirstName#1{{\enableXML\getvalue{person:#1}}} % what is  here to 
change?

Thanks for help again

Bernd