Kurt, the reason to have default values declared in the Schema is so you _don't_ have to specify them in the instance, they are defaulted. So this is what XMLBeans in doing. The default values are returned when you called the generated getters, but they are not put in the XML document. Radu
________________________________ From: Kurt Roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 2:34 PM To: dev@xmlbeans.apache.org Subject: toString()/Pretty print - outputs default values if not explicitly set? Hello, We have a schema that has some default values specified for some attributes. We are building an xmlbeans structure in order to do a "toString()" to get the resultant output xml. For some of the default values, we do not have any exact values to set on the xmlbean, so we are not explicitly setting values for these attributes. We were expecting the XmlBean to provide the default value upon calling "toString()". Is this supported? I did not see this in the doc (very possible I did not see it though). Thanks, Kurt Roy | PROS | Software Architect, Software Development phone: +1 713-335-8007 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Save the Date for the 14th Annual PROS Summit * April 20-23, 2008 at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston, Texas * www.prospricing.com <http://www.prospricing.com/> ________________________________ The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it.