ok, wasn't suggesting that we remove node/@uri just questioning it's name. So we would have...
<node xmlns:sca="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/opencsa/sca/200903" xmlns="http://tuscany.apache.org/xmlns/sca/1.1" xmlns:tuscany="http://tuscany.apache.org/xmlns/sca/1.1" uri="http://sample/nodes/TestNode1" domainURI="http://domain1" domainRegistryURI="tribes:default"> Still not clear about the precise utility of domainURI vs domainRegistryURI. I'll take a look at the code Simon
