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

• To: Razvan MIHAIU <mihaiu@m...>
• Subject: Re: DTD element type "ANY" vs. XML Schema element type"anyType"
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:20:39 -0800
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Razvan MIHAIU wrote:
>     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.

No. The content still has to be well-formed XML. anyType doesn't mean 
anyThing.

Bob Foster

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