Hi John, that's correct - attributes cannot be serialized. It's not the fault of BaseX; the reason are intricacies of the serialization model [1]. (The attributes would become attributes of a document node, which is not possible.) Perhaps you can get avoid the problem by attaching to your query expression which yields the attributes /string(), like //a/@b/string()? Kind regards, Hans-Jürgen [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/ John Best <johnbest5673@gmail.com> schrieb am 9:09 Mittwoch, 2.April 2014: Dear Team, I have downloaded the latest source code of BaseX, by latest I mean just a half hour ago. When I run it through Eclipse, I am getting error - [SENR0001] Attributes cannot be serialized:db:open-pre("docdb",7). This comes when, I try to get ONLY attributes .... -- Have a nice day JBest _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk