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Re: Why ANY is so restrictive?

• From: richard@c... (Richard Tobin)
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: 10 Feb 2000 12:16:21 GMT

In article <00c301bf7372$28616240$5df5c13f@PaulTchistopolskii>,
Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@q...> wrote:

>I proposed to change the semantics of ANY to 
>'anything well-formed is fine'. 

Regardless of the reasons for this, I don't think there is any chance
of making such changes to XML.

XML Schemas are likely to provide this functionality, see:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#declare-openness

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