In article <[🔎] 1219619817.5783.121.camel@holly.codehelp> you wrote: > Yes, a race condition could happen and yes, there could be all sorts of > complicated ways of handling temp files and passing back the name of the > file but examples have to be simple and clear, not obfuscated by > problems unrelated to the nature of the example itself. just use ~/out.xml instead. Gruss Bernd