The any Element

<any
id=ID
maxOccurs=nonNegativeInteger|unbounded
minOccurs=nonNegativeInteger
namespace=namespace
processContents=lax|skip|strict
any attributes
>

(annotation?)

</any>

• ##any - elements from any namespace is allowed (this is default)
• ##other - elements from any namespace that is not the namespace of the parent element can be present
• ##local - elements must come from no namespace
• ##targetNamespace - elements from the namespace of the parent element can be present
• List of {URI references of namespaces, ##targetNamespace, ##local} - elements from a space-delimited list of the namespaces can be present

• strict - the XML processor must obtain the schema for the required namespaces and validate the elements (this is default)
• lax - same as strict but; if the schema cannot be obtained, no errors will occur
• skip - The XML processor does not attempt to validate any elements from the specified namespaces

<xs:element name="person">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="firstname" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element name="lastname" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:any minOccurs="0"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>