I will do review of the doc and the schema when I am back at work, which is tomorrow (jan 4) onwards. With the schema I can now do validation tests of valid and invalid docs, at least within the limited semantics of XSD itself. These will all be in CVS on sourceforge Meantime, here is a verision of the draft with typesetting changes only 1. angled (non ascii) quotes converted to ASCII 34 quotes. Makes examples pastable into valid XML docs. Same for single quotes. MSWord's quote conversion is evil, as is that of openoffice. 2. code fragments in paragraphs converted into a 'code char' type. black, lucida console. We could change to some other non-proportional font if desired. The language of these code fragments is also "no check", which eliminates most of the red lines in the doc. 3 other minor typesettings. If I check this in to CVS, can we *all* use this as the latest version for making changes against? It is a nightmare trying to merge changes from >1 source in .doc files, but if we share the same doc in SCM then life is more manageable. -steve