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Re: DTD and Schema Teasers

• To: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@a...>
• Subject: Re: DTD and Schema Teasers
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:00:34 -0800
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>,"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
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On Dec 17, 2003, at 7:52 AM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:

>> 1.  Why did XML keep the requirement for deterministic models?
>
> ...James Clark and Tim Bray also argued
> that implementations could make good use of the fact
> that legal models are all deterministic, and wanted
> to retain it for that reason, as well.

For the record: I argued *ferocioiusly* against the non-determinism 
rule and was voted down.  Whereupon I made good use of non-determinism 
in the 'Larval' validation layer on top of the original Lark parser :) 
-Tim

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