Doug,
There is absolutely no ad-hocness being proposed. Nor is there any ambiguity or
uncertainty in the semantics of the use of elements which match against xsd:any
constructs, as you seem to believe there is.
Please take a couple of hours to skim over the XML Schema spec or its primer.
You can find the latter at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
Bob
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From: Douglas Otis [mailto:dotis(_at_)mail-abuse(_dot_)org]
Sent: Mon 5/24/2004 4:50 PM
To: Andrew Newton
Cc: Bob Atkinson; Jim Lyon; MARID
Subject: Re: XML name space (was: suggested new RRtype experiment)
XML specifies neither semantics nor a tag set [..]. This takes away the ad hoc
nature of XML which will otherwise produce a profusion of definitions.
I see this as a means to clarify a need for an orderly change to these
definitions. This offers no guarantee unpublished tokens will not
appear, but it will be crystal clear such unpublished tokens would be
outside recognized standards, in the same manner using a network
protocol other than those recognized like TCP would be clearly outside
recognized standards. XML "as is" suggests otherwise.
-Doug