RE: any processContents strict

> If I send an instance to a validator and it encounters 
> content it does not
> understand it is up to the processor if it defaults to 
> validate strict, lax, skip....

I would have said it is up to the user, but the way the user tells the
processor what they want is implementation-defined.

> But if I have an xsd:any and set the processContents to be 
> strict then the
> processor must follow the strict validation model for 
> everything that within
> the element that can hold 'any', correct? 

Yes.

IIRC there is some ambiguity about processContents="lax", if you find an
element for which there is no global element declaration, whether you "skip"
it, or apply lax validation to its children.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/