Re: [xml-dev] Why Use anyURI

>> Are you saying, why
>> didn't XSD 1.1 choose to make xs:anyURI correspond to the LEIRI
>> definition?
> Yes.
>
>

Timing. The first WD on LEIRI appeared in Nov 2008, whereas the current 
definition of xs:anyURI in XSD 1.1 first appeared in Jan 2006. It could 
have been revisited, I guess, but as far as I can see no-one invited the 
WG to do so.

Michael Kay
Saxonica