- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Feb 2003 13:52:31 +0000
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: Christian Lieske <christian_lieske@yahoo.de>, xmlschema-dev@w3.org, christian_lieske@sap.com
Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> writes:
> Hi Christian,
>
> > We are currently working on a schema in which we want to use the
> > 'any' element in order to allow flexibility. While doing this, we
> > started to ask ourselves why '##any' was chosen as default for the
> > 'namespace' attribute. From our understanding, '##other' would be an
> > option that would keep people closer to the original schema, since
> > it would disallow the appearance of markup from the original
> > namespace in the 'any' element.
>
> I'm not sure, but I suspect that ##any is the default because it
> provides a better mapping to the DTD syntax:
>
> <!ELEMENT foo ANY>
That's roughly right, if I remember correctly -- another way of
putting it is that we wanted the unmarked/default case to be the most
general.
ht
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