Hi France, If you don't need the exception behaviour you could use validate:xsd-info which retuns all the messages completely. BR, Marco. ________________________________ From: basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de <basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> on behalf of France Baril <france.baril@architextus.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:19:50 AM To: BaseX Subject: [basex-talk] validate:xsd Hi, The function returns incomplete error messages on 8.2. It makes it difficult to figure out what the problem is. validate:xsd($node, $staged-xsd) returns: Stopped at /Users/archie/BX-Acc/webapp/Accounting_ValidationSchemas.xqm, 13/41: [bxerr:BXVA0001] Validation failed. "Fatal:The version is required i... I'd really like to see what ... stands for. Is it possible to get more complete messages? Regards, France -- France Baril Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect france.baril@architextus.com<mailto:france.baril@architextus.com>