Again wit da AND and Repetitions

[roddey at us.ibm.com]

>>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.
>

Actually it does not require deterministic models, it just allows you to check
for them. And, I guess its not really what XML does or does not do that's in
question here, its what the new upcoming schema spec proposes to do that's at
issue.



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