Thank you for your efforts on patching this :) And good to know that it fixes the issue (although out of curiosity, i will try out a sample application and see why xerces is now happy this workaround). anonymous wrote : You can now decide in which project it is more appropriate to fix this issue and apply the patch to the corresponding source repository to resolve this once and for all. I am really not an expert on JBossXB, so its really the JBossXB guys who need to decide about this. The design forum thread that you opened is the right place to discuss this patch. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4250452#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...