What happens here during wildcard resolution is that the schema for urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0 is found but it doesn't have value element as the root element. The root elements are "log" wrote : | org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.ElementBinding@80cac9({urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}beanfactory, type={urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}beanfactoryType) | org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.ElementBinding@19d75ee({urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}bean, type={urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}beanType) | org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.ElementBinding@e1eea8({urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}lazy, type={urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}lazyType) | org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.ElementBinding@2db19d({urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}deployment, type={urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0}deploymentType) Also, I realized the XB doesn't behave according to the JAXB spec when XmlAnyElement.lax=false (which is the default). "javadoc" wrote : f false, all the elements that match the property will be unmarshalled to DOM, and the property will only contain DOM elements. http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlAnyEle... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4134075#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...