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

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

> > 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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