Dear Firedrakers, I have a bit of code where I want to construct a broken function space corresponding to a given function space. My code is: Vdg_elt = BrokenElement(V.ufl_element()) Vdg = FunctionSpace(state.mesh, Vdg_elt) This returns an error: File "/home/cjc1/repositories/dcore/gusto/advection.py", line 199, in __init__ Vdg = FunctionSpace(state.mesh, Vdg_elt) File "<decorator-gen-291>", line 2, in FunctionSpace File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/PyOP2/pyop2/profiling.py", line 59, in wrapper return f(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/firedrake/firedrake/functionspace.py", line 131, in FunctionSpace new = impl.FunctionSpace(topology, element, name=name) File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/firedrake/firedrake/functionspaceimpl.py", line 245, in __init__ sdata = get_shared_data(mesh, fiat_element) File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/firedrake/firedrake/functionspacedata.py", line 558, in get_shared_data return FunctionSpaceData(mesh, fiat_element) File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/firedrake/firedrake/functionspacedata.py", line 310, in __init__ self.bt_masks = get_bt_masks(mesh, edofs_key, fiat_element) File "<decorator-gen-281>", line 2, in get_bt_masks File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/firedrake/firedrake/functionspacedata.py", line 56, in cached result = f(mesh, key, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/firedrake/firedrake/functionspacedata.py", line 205, in get_bt_masks facet_dofs = horiz_facet_support_dofs(fiat_element) File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/src/fiat/FIAT/tensor_product.py", line 355, in horiz_facet_support_dofs assert isinstance(elem.ref_el, TensorProductCell) AttributeError: DiscontinuousElement instance has no attribute 'ref_el' What is the right way to do this? all the best --cjc -- http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/colin.cotter www.cambridge.org/9781107663916