Hi Michael, It is true that the regular expression is invalid. Thanks for posting this such that if anybody else is running into it they'll hopefully be able to find your post. But it would be even more useful if you posted the same thing to the mailing list of the group that publishes this Schema, to make sure that they fix it for their next release. Radu
________________________________ From: Holly, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:46 AM To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org Subject: Problem with ECMA 376 xsd Hello I hope this is the right place to voice this. I am trying to use XMLBeans to compile the ECMA 376 (Open Office) xsd files into a ooxml-schemas.jar. I have noticed that when I compile using scomp that I get the following error. vml.xsd:470:7: error: pattern-regex: The regular expression '1{0-1}[0-9]{0-3}f' is malformed: Invalid quantifier. Invalid quantity or a '}' is missing. The line in question is <xsd:pattern value="1{0-1}[0-9]{0-3}f" /> This IS an invalid regular expression. Based on what it appeared to be trying to do I substituted the following line and it passed <xsd:pattern value="^1{0,1}[0-9]{0,3}f" /> Just more of an FYI than anything. Michael Holly