Model group ambiguities

[James K. Tauber]

Daniel B. Austin:
>     SGML content models can be reduced to deterministic forms
> in all cases,

My understanding was that SGML content models have to be deterministic to
start with in order to avoid problems with automatic reduction to DFAs
because of and groups, etc.

My automata theory is a bit rusty but check out Annex H of ISO 8879.

James

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