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Re: Use of "ANY"

• To: ikuoikuo@h... (I-Lin Kuo)
• Subject: Re: Use of "ANY"
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:46:03 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <F17cesbJ7Rabq5PAe1400013522@h...> from "I-Lin Kuo" at Aug 01, 2002 05:38:33 PM

I-Lin Kuo scripsit:

> As far as I know, an element whose content is defined as ANY only has to be 
> well-formed XML.

That is not correct.  See Section 3 of the XML Recommendation:

# Validity constraint: Element Valid
# 
# An element is valid if there is a declaration matching elementdecl
# where the Name matches the element type, and one of the following holds:

[snip]

#  4.  The declaration matches ANY, and the types of any child elements
#      have been declared.

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