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

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> > When Any occurs in xml documents that are ran through process X the 
> > system crashes.

Well, clearly you should either fix the bug in the application or put a
fence around it to protect it from data it can't handle. But the problem is
just as likely to be that it fails on characters above 65535 as that it
fails on unexpected elements. Banning xs:any because some applications have
bugs is like banning high Unicode characters because some applications have
bugs. It's not xs:any that's the security weakness, it's the buggy
application.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/