Michael Huebner wrote:
> we have some wishes for the further development of XXE.
> 
> 1. Enable buttom-up (or mixed) style of document development, e.g. by 
> (optional) providing a special "wild card" element that can be inserted 
> every where in the XML tree. The "wild card" element content definition 
> should allow an arbitrary element. Every wild card element is by 
> definition illegal content. So you need two ways to save an XML file: as 
> a draft or as a valid document. In the later case all wild card elements 
> and their content sub-tree is discarded.
> 2. Allow to wrap an existing element within a newly created element. If 
> this breaks the given document structure the result has to be wrapped in 
> an wild card element.

Sorry but your request seems too specific (to the way you are used to 
edit XML) to be implemented in a generic editor like XXE.

As a workaround, if you work with custom XML Schemas or DTDs, why not 
use real wildcards? i.e. for a DTD:

---
<!ELEMENT wildcard ANY>
---



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