Re: [xml-dev] Use of "ANY"

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

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