Hi In addition to the current Petal syntax: <?petal:include file="include.xml"?> It would be cool to support Xinclude: <xi:include href="madeupwords.xml"/> This is a good, short, article about Xinclude: http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2002/07/31/xinclude.html W3C spec here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ Chris