Hi I will re-post using dput to recreate the xml file. I will need some time to find a small enough file that demonstrates the problem. Gavin R. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Extracting-xml-data-to-data-frames-tp4705964p4705981.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.