Hi All, I have had an issue on the table for months. I started a dialog about it here: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2008-October/008215.html The thread was interesting, helpful and did lead me to find an error in some schema definitions because of a misunderstanding of the required attribute. But that had nothing to do with the problem. It was first thought that it was a nasty, empty error report. After some investigation I discovered that it was an error that shouldn't be an error. Once I determined what I thought was the cause and a possible fix I posted a bug report on Launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope3/+bug/301226 So here we are. I have a possible solution and the only comments I get from the Zope Community are private emails (yes plural) asking me if anyone is working on this issue. I have to say that as far as I can tell; no. At this point I would be happier if someone just told me why my fix might negatively affect the other schema field validations. Now I realize that I must be the only person in the entire world to exercise zope.schema this way. BUT! It should work or it should be WELL documented that you cannot have cascading attribute=Object(IMySchema) definitions. The description of the project is here: http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/dev/OSHIP+Developer%27s+Wiki This is a rather major project. See: http://www.ohloh.net/p/oship for some metrics. We have just received three years of funding from the Brazilian government to complete the platform and develop an Epidemiological decision support system on top of it to improve the recognition of syndromic outbreaks. Right now the hardworking core open source team understands that we need to replace zope.schema._field.py with our own to make it work. But when the project is ready, in a few months, for healthcare application developers worldwide to start using it. It may be a hard sell to say; "Yeah we use the really cool, robust, well tested and trusted application server called the Zope Component Architecture because it really shows the strengths of the open source development process. Oh, by the way, after everything is installed you have to replace a core ZCA file with the one we provide you in order to make it actually work." Doesn't sound very professional to me and it should be embarrassing to the Zope Community if that has to happen. Thank you for reading this long posting. I hope someone delivers me a Holiday package in the form of a fixed zope.schema package. :-) Cheers, Tim -- Timothy Cook, MSc Health Informatics Research & Development Services LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook ************************************************************** *You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or * *from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home* **************************************************************