I have a design pattern for this that I call the Catch-All Element, See: 
http://www.xmlpatterns.com/CatchAllElementMain.shtml

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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>The simple solution is to use 
>
> <xs:any processContents="lax" namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
>    minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" /> 
>
>The more complex solution is to reinvent the schema for XHTML or create
>a subset of it.  
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Reiff-Marganiec, Dr S. [mailto:srm13@l...] 
>>Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:01 AM
>>To: xml-dev@l...
>>Subject: [xml-dev] XHTML elements in Schema
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am writing an XML schema that is supposed to constraint the 
>>format of xml files that form a basis for web pages. However, 
>>there is one place where I would like to give people the 
>>chance to include html-code in the xml. How can I achieve 
>>this without having to rewrite the xhtml schema? And then, 
>>how do I use the resulting schema in XML?
>>
>>Maybe I can even restrict what xhtml users can use (e.g. only 
>>what is allowed inside body?).
>>
>>thanks
>>S
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