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Re: The <any/> element: bane of security or savior of versioni

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: rasmussen.bryan@g...
• Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:06:26 +0100

> > Let us suppose we have an any allowed in the the following xml
> > fragment

But my point was, suppose you disallowed <any/>  what does that buy you
if the schema uses lax validation (or your schema validator starts off
in lax mode by default) or any one of hundreds of other possible issues.
I can't see why <any/> is being singled out here.

David

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  • The <any/> element: bane of security or savior of versioning?
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  • Re: The <any/> element: bane of security or savior of versioning?
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Re: The <any/> element: bane of security or savior of versioning?
    • From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
  • Re: The <any/> element: bane of security or savior of versioning?
    • From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
  • Re: The <any/> element: bane of security or savior of versioning?
    • From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>