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From: "Sean McGrath" <sean.mcgrath@p...> > I think Rick's thinking (and I agree with it) is that rule based validation > constraints > that concentrate on constraining aspects of the structure rather than the > whole structure, do not "degrade" as extra constraints need to be added > into the validation. What he said. > The theoretical expressibility of constraints in either grammer or rule > based systems in not the central concern here. The concern is how > robust the two approaches are in the face of (inevitable) real world > change. And Michael is right: we could image a grammar-based system in which the grammar was open by default and multiple content models could be applied in parallel to elements (sort-of like James Clark's solution to the <html:a> inclusion exception problem, where he uses several RELAX NG schemas in parallel.) That would work (as far as constraining siblings: not a general solution to marking up arbitrary data structures), but such a beast does not exist. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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