- From: Paul Grosso <paul@arbortext.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 96 18:23:16 CDT
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> > > At 06:35 PM 10/3/96 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > > >A.26 Like SGML, XML will allow elements to be declared ANY (11.2.4). > > Upon further consideration, I think I'll vote NO on this one. I can't > think of a single time I've actually *used* ANY, and can't (in the abstract) > think of situations where it is actually a worthwhile thing to do - I've rarely used ANY too, but we've talked about using it several times when creating simple DTDs or, more likely, taking some sort of partial declaration and then needing to invent a declaration for an undeclared element. I think I can imagine various scenarios when ANY would be useful when trying to intuit a DTD--not that there might not be better ways of intuiting DTDs, but we may be making the problem of intuiting DTDs a lot harder if we remove ANY.
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