Tip #7 Design XML Schemas using the any data type for building reusable services
Leverage the XML Schema any data type to build extensible schema contracts for your reusable services. The any element provides a convenient mechanism to construct modular schemas, separate framework/plumbing related processing from use case specific functionality, and allows graceful mechanisms to support new elements and types without impacting your existing consumers. Any also allows the provider to have containers to hold external schemas (with specific namespaces) that can be used to perform additional tasks.
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