xml-dev - Re: ANY

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@step.de>]

Ron Bourret wrote:
> 
> From "child elements," I assume the following:
> 
> 1) An element of type ANY can have zero or more children.

Correct.

> 2) An element of type ANY cannot contain PCDATA.  That is, it cannot have a
>    mixed content model.

Wrong.

<ANY-ELEMENT>lots of text and <MARKUP/> here</ANY-ELEMENT>

is valid XML.

--Lars M.

PS: This seems to be a candidate for a FAQ, a specification
clarification,
    as well as a good argument for comp.text.xml

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