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Re: Use of "ANY"

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• Subject: Re: Use of "ANY"
• From: "I-Lin Kuo" <ikuoikuo@h...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:55:33 +0000
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Sorry if this comes through twice as I'm not sure if my last post went 
through. I'm not used to having to hit "reply all" for thist list.

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Yes, thanks for the correction. I was mistaken about DTD's "ANY" in that the 
contents of the element still has to be declared tags. I had gotten it 
confused with <xsd:any> in which the content needs only to be well-formed.

Let me rephrase:

  I'd like to use <xsd:any> to allow users to place presentation tags within 
certain elements without my specifying exactly which presentation tags they 
are allowed to use. Is this an acceptable practice?

  By "acceptable", I mean:
  1) is this explicitly prohibited or recommended by good practice?
  2) would the use of <xsd:any> be viewed as "unfinished" and thus work 
against against the schema's acceptance by some body such as OASIS?

  Furthermore, if the use of <xsd:any> in this way is not acceptable, then 
what are some acceptable uses of <xsd:any>, and what other mechanisms are 
there to allow users to extend the schema?

I-Lin Kuo
Macromedia Certified ColdFusion 5.0 Advanced Developer
Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer
Ann Arbor, MI


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