My first candidate for an annoying and pointless defaultVal is @part. This has the defaultVal "n", which means: (no) either the element is not fragmented, or no claim is made as to its completeness. [Default] If it means "No claim is made as to its completeness", then there's no point whatsoever -- and actually the fact that this means _both_ "not fragmented" _and_ "I'm not saying whether this is fragmented or not" is just silly. Unless anyone gives me a good reason within the next 24 hours, I'm going to delete the defaultness and remove the latter part of the definition. I don't believe anyone has ever explicitly applied this attribute with the value "no" to mean the second part of its definition, so I don't see that any difference could be made to anyone's existing projects. Shout if you think I'm missing something. Cheers, Martin