Re: [xml-dev] The <any/> element: bane of security or savior of versioni

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

< From a security perspective the <any/> element represents a high risk
> and should be avoided if possible.  In environments where schema
> validation is used in a guarding capacity, a schema that uses the
> <any/> element is likely to be marked as high risk or even forbidden
> from use.

That seems a rather bizare characterisation, and compared to otehr
features of XSD (for example lax or skip validation) what is teh problem
that you see with <any/> ?

David

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