This came up as a subtopic of the defaults/optionals/nulls, etc. work. I have mistakenly been referring to xs:fixed as a facet. it is not, nor are xs:default, xs:minOccurs, xs:maxOccurs. Of particular interest is the semantics of the 'fixed' attribute, which is last in the doc. I picked one of 3 possible meanings, but described the other two also. Mike Beckerle STSM, Architect, Scalable Computing IBM Software Group Information Platform and Solutions Westborough, MA 01581 direct: voice and FAX 508-599-7148 assistant: Pam Riordan priordan@us.ibm.com 508-599-7046