Dear all, My small java application successfully validates an XML instance against an XML document using org.jdom.adapters.XercesDOMAdapter.getDocument() method. The document returned by this method is an . I would like to retrieve information from the DOM tree using Jdom classes. I thought I'd cast org.w3c.dom.Document to org.jdom.Document and take from there. Can somebody tell me why this does not work and what's the best way to go about it? Many thanks. Ambrose Tati