Geert and Michael, Thank you very much for your help.
I added 'xmlns="http://www.irhb.org"' in the schema, and now the docs validate and load beautifully. In the meantime I also discovered the validator at http://xsdvalidation.utilities-online.info/ which gives excellent feedback. Henrik _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com http://community.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general