xs:anyType

[Igor Akkerman]

Hi,

why does

<xs:element name="any" type="xs:anyType" />

not validate

<any><foo><bar>blah</bar></foo></any> ?

Isn't xs:anyType meant to accept any well-formed xml-tree?

Igor

 

[Jesper Zedlitz]

why does

<xs:element name="any" type="xs:anyType" />
not validate
<any><foo><bar>blah</bar></foo></any> ?

Isn't xs:anyType meant to accept any well-formed xml-tree?

No, "xs:anyType" is the root *type* of W3C's type definitions (like
java.lang.Object).
What you are looking for is the <xs:any/> element.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#element-any

Jesper