I'm sorry to bring this up again but I spent the last 10 hours trying to figure out how to do this with .xsd xml schemes with the result that I'm utterly sick & tired of this xml crap but nothing else. As far as I understood it external entities work only if one uses dtds not with xsds?! All I want to do is define a few elements in file1 and then include this in file2 - filexyz. So - _please_ can someone give me: 1. a short example how my file1 has to look 2. how to include file1 in file2+ (file2+ has to use .xsd schemes!) 3. how to reference the entities defind in file1 - i assume i should use '&foo;' Thanks for any help! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993930#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...