This message from 2009 describes what happens on Schematron validation: http://www.oxygenxml.com/pipermail/oxygen-user/2009-November/002902.html I couldn't find anything similar in the oXygen documentation. Is it in there? oXygen seems to match on exactly 'warning', etc., in @role, as the 2009 message suggests. However, I am currently working with a system that already has error identifiers along the lines of WARNING_BAD_THING and ERROR_WORSE_THING. I would like to be able to put those in assert/@role and report/@role because the @role values show up in both oXygen and SVRL even when the <assert> or <report> is in an abstract rule. (I.e., there's nothing in ISO Schematron SVRL for an abstract rule firing, but there is for its <assert>s and <report>s.) Is it possible to loosen the @role value matching to set the severity when @role starts with 'warning', etc., instead of matching on the whole @role value? Regards, Tony Graham Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- xmlroff XSL Formatter http://xmlroff.org xslide Emacs mode http://www.menteith.com/wiki/xslide Unicode: A Primer urn:isbn:0-7645-4625-2