it takes a while! I couldnt even get it for about half an hour! If it threw errors, we could get to the root of it, but since it doesn't theres no real way of finding i out. I just hit it from every angle, every browser till it finally said compiled. Three sites compiled no problem. They had no traces of "simple xml reader" in php info and DOM and XSLT tested out positive. There are docs out there that give you test scripts. If you just cant get it please pm one of us pundits, we do this see more daily so we can find out what it is in 20 seconds.