Again wit da AND and Repetitions

[Terje Norderhaug]

At 11:36 AM 5/13/99, roddey at us.ibm.com wrote:
>I never really had any one say whether they thought that validation that
>included both AND connectors and M to N repetition for any of the connectors is
>feasible (meaning fast and compact and maintainable and verifiable in my
>opinion, but tell me if you disagree.)
>
>Does anyone believe that these can be done in less than brute force tree search
>times?

XML requires deterministic content models. This allows validators to do
their job without having to look more than one element ahead or do brute
force tree searches.

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