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> > represented. The schema writer clearly has some kind of difference > > in mind between books appearing before an author and books appearing > > after. That difference should be made explicit in markup, as a matter > > of best practise. Give them different names if they are different. > > Otherwise ( book*, ( author+, book*)) is good enough. XML doesn't really have a way of saying that ordering is irrelevant; this is suboptimal in some situations, you carry information you don't need and make some things awkward... ABS -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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