diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2011 Scott Lawrence <bytbox@gmail.com>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/Text/LHE.hs b/Text/LHE.hs
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+module Text.LHE (
+  version,
+
+  parseEventFile,
+  parseEvents,
+
+  parseRawEventFile,
+  parseRawEvents,
+
+  Event(..),
+  RawEvent(..),
+) where
+
+import Text.XML.HaXml.Parse (xmlParse)
+import Text.XML.HaXml.Types (Document(..), Element(..), Content(..), QName(..))
+
+data Init = Init
+  deriving (Eq, Show, Read)
+
+data Event = Event [Double] [[Double]]
+  deriving (Eq, Show, Read)
+
+data RawEvent = RawEvent [Double] [[Double]]
+  deriving (Eq, Show, Read)
+
+version :: String
+version = "0.1"
+
+parseEventFile :: String -> IO [Event]
+parseEventFile fname = do
+  readFile fname >>= return . parseEvents fname
+
+parseEvents :: String -> String -> [Event]
+parseEvents fname dat =
+  let re = parseRawEvents fname dat in
+    []
+
+parseRawEventFile :: String -> IO [RawEvent]
+parseRawEventFile fname = do
+  readFile fname >>= return . parseRawEvents fname
+
+parseRawEvents :: String -> String -> [RawEvent]
+parseRawEvents fname dat =
+  let Document _ _ (Elem eName _ eList) _ = xmlParse fname dat in
+    map (getRawEvent . getElem) $ filter isEvent eList
+  where
+    isEvent (CElem (Elem (N "event") _ _) _) = True
+    isEvent _ = False
+    isCString (CString _ _ _) = True
+    isCString _ = False
+    parseLine = map parseDouble . words
+    getElem (CElem (Elem _ _ c) _) = head $ filter isCString c
+    getRawEvent (CString _ eStr _) =
+      let eLines = filter (\x -> length x > 2) $ lines eStr in
+        RawEvent (parseLine $ head eLines) (map parseLine $ tail eLines)
+    getRawEvent _ = RawEvent [] []
+
+parseDouble :: String -> Double
+parseDouble = read . reverse . dropWhile (=='.') . reverse
+
diff --git a/lhe.cabal b/lhe.cabal
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+-- LHE.cabal auto-generated by cabal init. For additional options, see
+-- http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/authors.html#pkg-descr.
+-- The name of the package.
+Name:                lhe
+
+-- The package version. See the Haskell package versioning policy
+-- (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy) for
+-- standards guiding when and how versions should be incremented.
+Version:             0.1
+
+-- A short (one-line) description of the package.
+Synopsis:            Parse for Les-Houches event files
+
+-- A longer description of the package.
+Description:         This package implements a parser for the Les-Houches event file format as described in hep-ph/0609017
+
+-- The license under which the package is released.
+License:             MIT
+
+-- The file containing the license text.
+License-file:        LICENSE
+
+-- The package author(s).
+Author:              Scott Lawrence
+
+-- An email address to which users can send suggestions, bug reports,
+-- and patches.
+Maintainer:          bytbox@gmail.com
+
+-- A copyright notice.
+-- Copyright:           
+
+Category:            Text
+
+Build-type:          Simple
+
+-- Extra files to be distributed with the package, such as examples or
+-- a README.
+-- Extra-source-files:  
+
+-- Constraint on the version of Cabal needed to build this package.
+Cabal-version:       >=1.6
+
+
+Library
+  -- Modules exported by the library.
+  Exposed-modules:     Text.LHE
+  
+  -- Packages needed in order to build this package.
+  Build-depends: haskell2010 >= 1.0 , HaXml >= 1.22
+  
+  -- Modules not exported by this package.
+  -- Other-modules:       
+  
+  -- Extra tools (e.g. alex, hsc2hs, ...) needed to build the source.
+  -- Build-tools:         
+ 
+source-repository head
+  type:  git
+  location: https://bytbox@github.com/bytbox/lhe.hs.git
+