[xsde-users] XSD/e 3.2.0 released

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Ivan,

Ivan Le Lann <ivan.lelann at free.fr> writes:

> Could any_type and 'passthrough' efforts lead to built-in xs:any support 
> in future XSD/e Hydrid release ?

The problem with storing raw XML in any_type is that it can have the
mixed content structure (interleaved elements and text). It is possible
to implement a simple and cheap DOM-like structure without the support
for mixed content, which is what is done in the passthrough example.
This support will also satisfy 90% of the use-cases. On the other hand,
supporting mixed content complicates things significantly. If we to
provide generic raw XML support in any_type/xs:any, we would have to have
support for mixed content which won't be used by majority of the users
and which will be quite expensive, footprint-wise. So for now we have
decided to by default ignore the content in xs:any/any_type and let
you customize the object model if you need this functionality. Since
in most cases you won't need mixed content support, this should be
fairly easy to do.

Boris