Again wit da AND and Repetitions

[John Cowan]

roddey at us.ibm.com wrote:

> What are the feelings of some folks who implemented SGML validators? If you had
> to start with that and add NtoM repetition on top of that, where would that have
> taken you? Or did SGML already provide both of these things? If so, what was the
> general architecture used in some common ones? Why is the sky blue?

IIRC the canonical way of doing (A & B & C) is to transform it
into (A | B | C)* and then do a post-check that each of A, B, C
appears exactly once.  As opposed to brute-force expansion into a
DFA.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
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