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  • From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:00:49 +1100


Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre wrote:

> Wow, it was so good to see Sam Wilmott quoted again,
> he is one of our industries real thinkers.

No question - he's one of the smartest people around.

> My personal favorite ambiguity puzzle (which I used to
> give to SGML DTD-writer classes) goes something like this:

Without doubt, my favorite is:

   a, (b, a)*, b?

It's the only form of ambiguity that can't be resolved while preserving
the original intent of the model - but feel free to try...


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Marcus Carr                      email:  mrc@a...
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