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Thanks. I have it. I use it as a structural reference. The issue is documented but unimplemented or buggy features. It is to be expected given the timeliness of the recommendation and the difficulty of the implementation. Eventually, I have downloaded a beta of one of the Schema IDEs and am using that for final parsing to check the schema design. BTW, it doesn't implement UNIQUE either but it says so in the manual. MSXML 4.0 is for the manly who like to work in PFE. I usually do that but.... Getting an instance to parse against a schema is easy. Getting the schema instance to parse against the schema schema takes more work. The short cut is the beta. The problem was on the first pass, whatever it didn't like, it threw away. It ate about half of a schema I was working on. Luckily, I don't feed master copies to beta software. Word to the wise who are testing those IDEs out there: they really are betas. XML Schemas are hard. That is a fact. OTOH, not so hard one can't learn them but even as an ancient pointy-bracket man, this is one time I heartily suggest serious designers find a good Schema design tool/IDE and use it. Where time is money and accuracy is critical because of distribution, these IDEs will be big money and face savers. For the HumanML schemas, we will probably push every button in the XML Schema repetoire because it is a massive job, requires a schema toolkit (eg, lots of complexTypes abstract="true"), and derived schemas before one gets to the first instance. So, anyone who wants to test validators, give us a few weeks to get more of it done and we can make these available as test guineas. Markup design has become software design for real. Technical writers and marketing editors need not apply. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Culshaw, James [mailto:james.culshaw@i...] Microsoft have produced a downloadable SDK which gives you all the documentation around the parser which is very good on the MSDN site.
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