diff --git a/source/std/experimental/xml/domimpl.d b/source/std/experimental/xml/domimpl.d
index 7186682..013a601 100644
--- a/source/std/experimental/xml/domimpl.d
+++ b/source/std/experimental/xml/domimpl.d
@@ -29,12 +29,11 @@ import std.experimental.allocator.gc_allocator;
 // this is needed because compilers up to at least DMD 2.071.1 suffer from issue 16319
 private auto multiVersionMake(Type, Allocator, Args...)(ref Allocator allocator, auto ref Args args)
 {
-    static if (__traits(compiles, allocator.make!Type(args)))
+    static if (Args.length == 0  && __traits(compiles, allocator.make!Type(args)))
         return allocator.make!Type(args);
-    else static if (Args.length > 0 && __traits(compiles, allocator.make!Type(args[1..$])))
+    else static if (Args.length > 0 && __traits(compiles, allocator.make!Type(args[0 .. $])))
     {
-        auto res = allocator.make!Type(args[1..$]);
-        res.outer = args[0];
+        auto res = allocator.make!Type(args[0 .. $]);
         return res;
     }
     else
@@ -2390,7 +2389,7 @@ class DOMImplementation(DOMString, Alloc = shared(GCAllocator), ErrorHandler = b
                 else
                     alias MapToConfigName = AliasSeq!();
             }
-            private static immutable string[] arr = [MapToConfigName!(__traits(allMembers, Params))];
+            static immutable string[] arr = [MapToConfigName!(__traits(allMembers, Params))];
 
             // specific to DOMStringList
             override
diff --git a/source/std/experimental/xml/package.d b/source/std/experimental/xml/package.d
index db6a5a0..2cd6936 100644
--- a/source/std/experimental/xml/package.d
+++ b/source/std/experimental/xml/package.d
@@ -56,9 +56,14 @@
 +
 +   // write it out to "catalogue.xml"
 +   auto file = File("catalogue.xml", "w");
-+   file.lockingTextWriter
-+       .writerFor!string   // instatiates an xml writer on top of an output range
-+       .writeDOM(dom);     // write the document with all of its children
++
++	auto textWriter = file.lockingTextWriter;  // instatiates an xml writer on top of an output range
++	textWriter.writerFor!string.writeDOM(dom); // write the document with all of its children
++
++   // bug: 
++   // file.lockingTextWriter
++   //    .writerFor!string   // instatiates an xml writer on top of an output range
++   //    .writeDOM(dom);     // write the document with all of its children
 +   -----
 +
 +   Also available is a SAX parser, which we will use to find all text nodes containing
diff --git a/source/std/experimental/xml/writer.d b/source/std/experimental/xml/writer.d
index 8d4455e..bf49451 100644
--- a/source/std/experimental/xml/writer.d
+++ b/source/std/experimental/xml/writer.d
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ void writeDOM(WriterType, NodeType)(auto ref WriterType writer, NodeType node)
                 foreach (attr; elem.attributes)
                     writer.writeAttribute(attr.nodeName, attr.value);
             foreach (child; elem.childNodes)
-                writer.writeDOM(elem);
+                writer.writeDOM(child);
             writer.closeElement(elem.tagName);
             break;
         case text: