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Re: DTD element type "ANY" vs. XML Schema element type "anyTyp

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• Subject: Re: DTD element type "ANY" vs. XML Schema element type "anyType"
• From: "Razvan MIHAIU" <mihaiu@m...>
• Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:01:31 +0200
• Cc: richard@i..., chiusano_joseph@b..., bob@o...

    Thanks for finding the time to answer: after all it is Sunday evening.

    What about the reasons for this change ? Does it have anything to do
with CDATA sections (as I suspect) ? Did they change it so that CDATA
sections will be less useful ? I know that CDATA sections are even more
general - you can have unescaped ampersands - practically any kind of
markup except "]]" but the new type could replace CDATA sections in some
circumstances.



Regards,
Razvan


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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Razvan MIHAIU [mailto:mihaiu@m...] 
>>Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:29 AM
>>To: xml-dev@l...
>>Subject:  DTD element type "ANY" vs. XML Schema 
>>element type "anyType"
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>>Hi,
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>>	I have noticed that the element type ANY from DTDs 
>>allows only elements that have been declared in the DTD while 
>>the element type "anyType" from XML Schema allows any kind of 
>>element inside it (even elements that were not declared 
>>inside the Schema).
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>>	I have tested this behavior with XML Spy 2005 and xsv 2.8-1.
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>>	Isn't this against the spirit of XML Schema (which is 
>>supposed to allow more control, not less) ? Why was this 
>>subtle difference allowed ? It seems to confuse even advanced 
>>XML users: in "Professional XML" (Wrox) I found the following phrase:
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>>"It is completely unconstrained and equivalent to the ANY 
>>keyword in DTDs, but in XML Schema it is known as the anyType."
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>>Regards,
>>Razvan
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