Thanks Jano, 

Tried that and although it was being skipped by the formatter my other
process (A SAX Parser) coulodn't see the <?provider 1234567890?> tag. 

Any other ideas? 
Thanks
Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 June 2006 3:13 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Another supported langauge

Hi,

><fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
><provider>123456789012345678</provider>
><fo:layout-master-set>
>...
>Now it still generates the PDF but is there a better/proper 
>way of being able to pass the extra data I need in provider 
>without causing the error. I now it's not in the FO namespace 
>but I need another process to grab the XML and do something 
>else with it but FOP still has to be able to produce the PDF 
>with the same file. 

How about a processing instruction <?provider 123456789012345678?>?

Jarno