OK, AxKit 1.6.1 is branched. If you want to do any work on the 1.6.1 release then you'll have to check it out separately: cvs -d $MYCVSDETAILS co -r AxKit-1_6_1 -d AxKit-1_6_1 xml-axkit Otherwise you're working on HEAD, which is towards 1.7 now. Matt.