Jerry> Aha! Note that you were parsing the prolog *in SGML mode*! Jerry> The real problem here is that the ".html" extension, in Jerry> conjunction with auto-mode-alist, puts you into html-mode, Jerry> which is a descendant of sgml-mode. <snip> APA> I had this problem too. I think you need to edit XHTML APA> documents in xml-mode! PSGML should switch to xml-mode based APA> on a XHTML DTD, I think. Jerry & Adrian, This fixes my problems -- thanks a lot. In retrospect this all makes sense, but it was not intuitive the first time around. I agree that PSGML should deduce XML or SGML when entering html-mode. I bet this is going to be a FAQ once XHTML becomes more popular. APA> Here's what I did for the XEmacs website at APA> http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/[1] I added this trick to my .emacs Gleb