Thanks for the reply I am understanding it better now. Please forgive my ignorance. So the xsi is just an arbitrary name space prefix, I get that now. And it make sense to me why it gets converted to an xmlns.
What I really need to know is why it is not inherited by the child elements? From what I an told, I need the second namespace, so that I can point to the schema, so that I can validate the document. Is that the wrong way to link to the schema? Can I force both namespaces to be inherited by the child elements? Thanks for all the help -Matthew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
