Hi list, In my oXygen Author mode framework, I want to offer an action to replace an abbreviation with its expanded form. To give a concrete example of one of our (TEI) files. Suppose I have a word like "accusatu." I select it, trigger my action, get asked what it should be replaced with and get (in code) this: <choice><abbr>accusa.</abbr><expan>accusatus</expan></choice> The thing is, when the selected string contains a character entity, say, "Jtẽ", then the surrounding works okay, but the selected phrase is *repeated after* the inserted fragment, so that I get <choice><abbr>Jtẽ</abbr><expan>Item</expan></choice>Jtẽ This sometimes happens and sometimes it does not. With <choice><abbr>intẽtiõis</abbr><expan>intentionis</expan></choice> it has just worked fine. Note that for directly entered chars like nõ -> non, I have never noticed this problem, only when I am using numeric character references. Then again, it's not clear to me which cases are problematic and if they are so always or not. (I think with the Item from the example above it happens always.) But I don't know what distinguishes this case from the second example. (Also, from time to time I get errors because "The current context is read-only", which also seems to relate to the NCR entities involved and to how (far) I draw my selection.) The xml fragment that the SurroundWithFragmentOperation is using is this: <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><abbr></abbr><expan>${ask('Wie lautet die Expansion?', generic)}</expan></choice> Has anyone experienced similar things or can help in some way? Best, Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Wagner Project "The School of Salamanca" Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz and Institute of Philosophy Goethe University Frankfurt http://salamanca.adwmainz.de Grüneburgplatz 1 (Pf 116, R. 2.455) 60629 Frankfurt am Main Tel. +49 (0)69/798-32774 Fax +49 (0)69/798-32794