Re: Reopening Issue 26: regularityConstraint

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Murata Makoto <>
Date
2001-07-10T00:50:09+00:00
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Re: Reopening Issue 26: regularityConstraint
James Clark wrote:

> Hmm.  So would you then split the inference rules for oneOrMore into two,
> one for the attribute case (which would have empty children), and one for
> the children case (which would have empty attributes)?

Yes.

James Clark wrote:

> > I think that the current restriction is extremely hard to understand.
> > Do you really think that the BNF in 7.1 is easy to learn?
> 
> No, but I don't think users need to learn it, because it doesn't prevent a
> user doing anything that they might reasonably want to do.

At present, only the BNF prohibits (@a, a)*.   I think that this is very 
difficult for implementors.

Cheers,

Makoto