cut-n-paste roadrunner:perl_ldap -b recruiters -U zaheerm into userinfo.xml cvs commit gets me this: Gentoo XML-QA-checker called. In case of troubles, contact pylon@gentoo.org or swift@gentoo.org userinfo.xml:5101: element user: validity error : No declaration for attribute name of element user ^ userinfo.xml:5109: element fullname: validity error : No declaration for element fullname Zaheer Abbas Merali ^ userinfo.xml:5110: element realname: validity error : Element realname content does not follow the DTD, expecting (firstname , familyname), got (familyname firstname fullname ) ^ userinfo.xml:5113: element user: validity error : Element user content does not follow the DTD, expecting (realname , pgpkey , email+ , ircalias* , joined , birthday , passphoto? , status? , roles? , location? , (address | webpage | phonenumber | photo)*), got (birthday joined location pgpkey realname roles status ) ^ userinfo.xml:5113: element user: validity error : Element user does not carry attribute username ^ XML-Checking userinfo.xml ... [ failed ] so, "" becomes "", and I end up with this: mike@koala ~/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/roll-call $ cvs commit userinfo.xml Gentoo XML-QA-checker called. In case of troubles, contact pylon@gentoo.org or swift@gentoo.org userinfo.xml:5109: element fullname: validity error : No declaration for element fullname Zaheer Abbas Merali ^ userinfo.xml:5110: element realname: validity error : Element realname content does not follow the DTD, expecting (firstname , familyname), got (familyname firstname fullname ) ^ userinfo.xml:5113: element user: validity error : Element user content does not follow the DTD, expecting (realname , pgpkey , email+ , ircalias* , joined , birthday , passphoto? , status? , roles? , location? , (address | webpage | phonenumber | photo)*), got (birthday joined location pgpkey realname roles status ) ^ XML-Checking userinfo.xml ... [ failed ]