Google is such a wonderful thing... :) I did some further digging and found an example (of the exact poem I was using for an example, no less) from the Electronic Text Center at the UofVirginia. They use a simple rend element within the <l> tag to mark an indent. Anyone have a problem with that? It keeps the indention information, but does it within the XML tag element. The only possible issue I see if that it doesn't allow for variable length indents. Josh **** Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark <div1 type="fit" n="1"> <head> Fit the First: THE LANDING </head> <pb n="45" /> <lg type="stanza"> <l>"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,</l> <l rend="indent">As he landed his crew with care;</l> <l>Supporting each man on the top of the tide</l> <l rend="indent">By a finger entwined in his hair.</l> </lg> <pb n="46" /> <lg type="stanza"> <l>"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:</l> <l rend="indent">That alone should encourage the crew.</l> <l>Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:</l> <l rend="indent">What I tell you three times is true."</l> </lg> [ETC....] </div1>