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This paper discusses a light-weight approach to the analysis of traces of partially ordered events collected during the execution of a concurrent or distributed system through the use of XML technology. Traces contain information about the creation and termination of threads or objects and the exchange of messages and other types of communication among them. Traces are transformed according to property patterns, visualised and analysed to support fault diagnosis of concurrent systems. We present an approach using XML technology and report the findings of an initial industrial project.