Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > But... I swapped Xalan with Saxon 6.5.3 in Forrest and I get a NPE :-( That's not unusual. Did you use the most recent Cocoon? I suppose there are no document() calls in the style sheet, because at least in the Cocoon releases I used it gets passed null as Source quite often for no obvious reason. Xalan tends to ignore this, while Saxon barfs. J.Pietschmann