Hello, a slightly modified example: ---- t.xml AA AB ---- and the Ctx source: ---- t.mkiv \startxmlsetups xml:T \xmlfunction{#1}{test} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{*}{+} % \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{*}{-} % Empties output?! \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a/aa}{xml:*} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a/ab}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \startluacode local aux = aux; if not aux then aux = {}; _G.aux = aux end xml.functions.aa = function(t) aux.num = t.at.number end \stopluacode \startxmlsetups xml:aa \xmlfunction{#1}{aa} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:ab \xmlfunction{#1}{ab} \ctxlua{context.section("New section " .. (aux.num or "??"))} \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:T} \starttext Hello \xmlprocessfile{id}{t.xml}{} \stoptext ---- Two (remaining) questions: 1) Why the line "\xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{*}{-}" (try to uncomment!) causes the whole output is empty, even if I specify another operation for "a/ab" elements later? My intention is to have "{*}{-}" (don't flush anything by default), excluding elements specified later, e.g. "a/ab" (with another operation specified); how to achieve this? 2) How to get "aa.number" from within "ab" element? I believed "\xmlatt{#1/../aa}{number}" within "a/ab" will do that, but...? How to do that? I have a partial solution: when processing "a/aa", I save an attribute value to a Lua variable, which I use later; but this solution doesn't look very "clean" for me; I'd rather find a way to access parental (first) child attributes form within a node... Thank you in advance; I'm not very familiar with Ctx XML processing (so far)... Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 Fax: +420 244 461 038