Hi there, Just downloaded and installed the new release. Compiling and installing on my system went off without a hitch, my compliments. I've been trying to use pathfinder's xquery's support and I ran into some snags. It may be something I do wrong, but I'll ask anyway. First, I was testing the xquery support. I tried to shred a document like this: shred_doc('/home/faassen/xml/shaks/hamlet.xml', 'hamlet') and then to refer to this document from an xquery like this: doc('hamlet')//FM I get the following error: MAPI = monetdb@localhost:50000 QUERY = doc('hamlet')//FM ERROR = !ERROR: [shred_url]: 1 times inserted nil due to errors at tuples 0@0. !ERROR: [shred_url]: first error was: !ERROR: shred: cannot stat `hamlet': No such file or directory !ERROR: CMDshred_url: operation failed. !ERROR: interpret_params: leftfetchjoin(param 2): evaluation error. Hinted by the 'cannot stat', I tried the following: doc('/home/faassen/xml/shaks/hamlet.xml')//FM and this gets a step further (still wondering why the former didn't work, though): MAPI = monetdb@localhost:50000 QUERY = doc('/home/faassen/xml/shaks/hamlet.xml')//FM ERROR = !ERROR: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "play.dtd" !ERROR: [shred_url]: 1 times inserted nil due to errors at tuples 0@0. !ERROR: [shred_url]: first error was: !ERROR: shred_external_subset: WARNING: xmlParseDTD("play.dtd") FAILED, NO ID/IDREF QUERIES !ERROR: shred_external_subset: NOTE : maybe using absolute filenames works, sorry! !ERROR: CMDshred_url: operation failed. !ERROR: interpret_params: leftfetchjoin(param 2): evaluation error. The play.dtd is in the directory next to 'hamlet.xml', so don't know why that doesn't work either. So, I made a new hamlet2.xml removing the dtd reference. I don't need dtd support anyway, but it'd be nice if it could parse documents with dtds, of course. Now, it works. Next, I was trying out the xquery update support. Not hindered by any knowledge on how it works, I went to the referenced W3C document and adapted the first insert statement I saw there into this: do insert <year>2005</year> after fn:doc('/home/faassen/xml/shaks/hamlet2.xml')/PLAY/TITLE This however gives me an error message I do not understand: MAPI = monetdb@localhost:50000 QUERY = do insert <year>2005</year> after fn:doc('/home/faassen/xml/shaks/hamlet2.xml')/PLAY/TITLE ERROR = !type error: no variant of function upd:insertAfter accepts the given argument type(s): element TITLE { item* }*; (node* | node)* !type error: maybe you meant: !type error: upd:insertAfter (node, node*) as stmt !type error: illegal arguments for function upd:insertAfter What am I doing wrong there? Regards, Martijn