All, Just wanting to make available some changes that allow for creating XML instances with namespaces for the DOM4j Entity mode. The namespace is specified in the mapping file for element nodes and does not currently support the property tag. Actually, I have only verified the class,set,many-to-one,one-to-many tags. If this feature is welcome I would be happy to work on debugging and making changes to get it merged into the code base. I just need some direction, otherwise I will keep moving along. The code changes are at since the message seems to get bounced with an attachement: http://www.geistig.com/java/hibernate-namespace-updates.zip Steve