diff --git a/IO/XML/vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter.cxx b/IO/XML/vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter.cxx
index 23480e32d802bc48fd9ae9687a7406313e11f509..329c83c1a9336533065d1fb8c2c091bbae06cf96 100644
--- a/IO/XML/vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter.cxx
+++ b/IO/XML/vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter.cxx
@@ -254,6 +254,9 @@ int vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter::WriteNonCompositeData(
     }
 
   // FIXME
+  // Ken's note, I do not think you can fix this, the
+  // setprogress range has to be done in the loop that calls
+  // this function.
   // this->SetProgressRange(progressRange, myWriterIndex,
   //                       GetNumberOfInputConnections(0)+writeCollection);
 
diff --git a/IO/XML/vtkXMLMultiBlockDataWriter.cxx b/IO/XML/vtkXMLMultiBlockDataWriter.cxx
index 93ef10eba616b7b7b9f140ee85ba9fb514c89d76..ee8ea9fbe57e8aea1aa9ccf54bc7b2bd449fd409 100644
--- a/IO/XML/vtkXMLMultiBlockDataWriter.cxx
+++ b/IO/XML/vtkXMLMultiBlockDataWriter.cxx
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ int vtkXMLMultiBlockDataWriter::WriteComposite(vtkCompositeDataSet* compositeDat
   iter->VisitOnlyLeavesOff();
   iter->TraverseSubTreeOff();
   iter->SkipEmptyNodesOff();
+  int toBeWritten = 0;
+  for (iter->InitTraversal(); !iter->IsDoneWithTraversal();
+    iter->GoToNextItem())
+    {
+    toBeWritten++;
+    }
+
+  float progressRange[2] = { 0.f, 0.f };
+  this->GetProgressRange(progressRange);
 
   int index = 0;
   int RetVal = 0;
@@ -115,6 +124,8 @@ int vtkXMLMultiBlockDataWriter::WriteComposite(vtkCompositeDataSet* compositeDat
         datasetXML->SetAttribute("name", name);
         }
       vtkStdString fileName = this->CreatePieceFileName(writerIdx);
+
+      this->SetProgressRange(progressRange, writerIdx, toBeWritten);
       if (this->WriteNonCompositeData( curDO, datasetXML, writerIdx,
                                        fileName.c_str()))
         {