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Re: all group composition

• Subject: Re: all group composition
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:16:32 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Could you clarify this? I read it several times and still can't make 
heads or tails of it. Whatever happened to maxOccurs?

-- Ron

Bob Foster wrote:

> Many people come to the table thinking, "There's no reason why element a 
> has to be written before element b, so I should use 'all'." But that's 
> not actually the primary use case for all. It is for situations where 
> user-specified order does matter and you wish to enforce an upper bound 
> on the number of occurrences.

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