https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523639 feature request which makes sense to me, the simple patch attached seems to be sufficient, one can define and have the description back in the dump. Doesn't try to keep the location of the tag, it always get serialized after <uuid>. The only drawbacks I can think of are: - others XML formats may require the same, but honnestly it's trivial - machine generated description (for example if the history log of a domain gets stored there) could grow a lot and I wonder if we have a hard limit on the size when transmitting xml descriptions Oh and I didn't found a good place to test the feature, i.e. no test seems to parse and reserialize XML it's always about conversions. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/