Howard Chu wrote: Assuming this is not a bug, this is still really painfull... It would be much better to consider that the AttributeType, being parenthesed, can be scanned without taking into account the leading white space, until the closing ')'. That being said, as soon as I have fixed the schema file, I'm not suffering anymore. I was just thinking about the poor other users ;) Thanks Howard ! -- -- cordialement, regards, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com directory.apache.org