Re: ANY

Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@step.de)
Thu, 07 May 1998 16:29:53 +0200

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