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>This & thing is so far outside the way most other computer languages >work that standard off-the-shelf parser generators roll on their >backs and wave their paws in the air and admit defeat. Personally, I think & should be limited to just 'leaf' nodes only. This would keep it sane, and allow it to be implemented as a special case content model (as we already do for Mixed anyway.) This would provide a lot of usefulness without forcing everyone to throw out the very fast and compact DFA type representations in wide use now, or implement another (much more complex one) in addition to. People should accept the fact that XML is not going to solve all problems and still stay light enough to remain what it was intended to be. Schema will already be very bloated with all the other stuff in it now. I guesstimate that a Schema implementation will probably be at least twice the size of the existing parser code in most implementations, if not more so. Anyone think differently? ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley roddey@u... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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