- From: Gregor Karlinger <Gregor.Karlinger@iaik.at>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:19:21 +0100
- To: Ed Simon <ed.simon@entrust.com>
- CC: "'w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org'" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Received on Friday, 25 February 2000 03:20:21 UTC
Ed Simon wrote: > Strictly speaking, XML v1.0 defines "ANY" to mean "any of the elements > defined in the DTD" whereas we would like it to mean "PDCDATA or any > well-formed XML instance". Hence, the DTD model is really inadequate here > though some might consider "ANY" to be closer than "PCDATA". Thanks for this enlightenment! Up to now I thought PCDATA would correspond with String, and the behaviour of a XML parser API I have in use fortified my opinion (please see my response to Joseph's article). -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Karlinger mailto://gregor.karlinger@iaik.at Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------
Received on Friday, 25 February 2000 03:20:21 UTC