Jeff/Tom, Jeff's reply seems to confirm this, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2002Jun/0145.html was the archive I checked that seemed to say what I was doing was indeed legal. Of course the spec would have also been a good place to look (o: thanks for pointing me to the relevant section.
Ok, so what I am doing _is_ legal, but isn't supported right? I'll post a bug report? [snip] > [Note: the original poster's problem could be worked around by using > xs:string as the base type instead of xs:anySimpleType.] yep, thats what I'm doing atm - but I wasn't fully aware of what anySimpleType would do - this wont cause any problems will it? cheers, and thanks dim
