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Re: Use of "ANY"

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• Subject: Re: Use of "ANY"
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:16:58 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <200208011754.SAA23767@m...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

I wrote:

>You can either view ANY as meaning "any declared element", or as
>meaning "any element at all", but if you take the latter view you have
>to also note that those those child elements themselves will be
>invalid if they are not declared.

>(Since XML doesn't define validity of an element, only of a document,
>these two views produce the same result.)

Whoops, that's not true, the spec *does* define element validity, and
in fact, both the containing element and the child element are
invalid.

-- Richard

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