Consider the following xdoc code: <section name="1"> <subsection name="s1"> <p>p1</p> <ul> <li>l1</li> </ul> </subsection> <subsection name="s2"> <p>p2</p> <ul> <li>l1</li> </ul> </subsection> </section> This renders to the following XHTML code: <a name="1"></a><div class="section"><h2>1</h2> <a name="s1"></a><div class="section"><h3>s1</h3> <p>p1</p> <ul><li>l1</li></ul> </div> <a name="s2"></a><div class="section"><h3>s2</h3> p2 <ul><li>l1</li></ul> </div> </div> Please not the missing <p> </p> around 'p2'.