Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Many thanks for the pointer, I could never have found it on my own. I'm 
> not expert on XML, DTD, SAX, DOM, XSD, XMI...  so it will take me some 
> time to penetrate the 24 uncommented Yaxo classes. But I'll get there, 

outch ;-) Point taken...

The easiest way to deal with parsing XML is to parse into a DOM 
structure and then just walk through it recursively.
See
XMLDOMParser addressBookXMLWithDTD
for an example.
You can also read the XML directly from a file by using

XMLDOMParser>>parseDocumentFromFileNamed: fileName


Cheers

Michael