Felix, Please try this new patch to trunk. Don't use any other of my recent style patches as it contains all the current stuff. This now suppresses action execution when looking for further matches. If you want the actions to be executed anyway, add 'with_actions' (or 'withactions', both are recognised). Also, there is a subtle change in the logic in that now if an action rule matches but otherwise would be ignored because it's not the first time through, resolveType() will return null so that if the action rule is part of a sequence (which it almost certainly is) then the rule munging engine will go on to look at the next rule in the sequence. Without that change, I think it would always choose the first rule in cases like this: foo=bah { tag=val1 } [0x01 continue] foo=bah { tag=val2 } [0x02 stop] Anyway, see what happens. Mark