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Paul> Paul Tchistopolskii <URL:mailto:paul@q...> Paul quoted: >> ANY means any *declared* element. You still have to declare the >> elements, and when you declare the elements, you have to declare >> what their contents can be. 0> In article <00c301bf7372$28616240$5df5c13f@PaulTchistopolskii>, 0> Paul wrote: Paul> About one year ago I have posted the letter to XML-dev list Paul> asking was there some practical reason behind making 'ANY' so Paul> restrictive in XML v 1.0. Paul> Paul> I proposed to change the semantics of ANY to 'anything well-formed Paul> is fine'. Paul> Paul> There was a silence on this topic. I got no explanation why ANY Paul> is so restrictive. Paul> Paul> Maybe now somebody would try to explain what was the purpose of Paul> such a restrictive 'ANY' in XML 1.0? Because if ANY allowed any well-formed content, you could have a valid XML document which was not SGML-valid. The idea of valid XML is that it can be processed by an SGML parser with an appropriate declaration; the concept of "well-formed" was invented to allow non-SGML processing of XML. I suggest you concentrate your efforts on other schema types than DTDs, as these other schema types generally apply to all well-formed XML (not only valid), and may be able to specify what you want. --
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