If you try <aspect class="org.jboss.test.microcontainer.beans.XmlLoadableAspect"> | <property name="property">Test1</property> | <somexml>hello</somexml> | <attribute name="IntAttr">12</attribute> | </aspect> It'll pass. The reason is the order of particles in the sequence. property is preceding the wildcard. So, in your case, when somexml is encountered before the property, the cursor in sequence moves to the repeated wildcard. And everything after the somexml is considered to be a wildcard content. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4147817#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...