Re: [xml-dev] modeling, validating and documenting an xml grammar

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Re: [xml-dev] modeling, validating and documenting an xml grammar
"Jonathan Borden" <> writes:

> Number of living parents,
> grandparents,

This works only if we confine ourselves to either legal or biological
parents.  Arguably, there are living persons with five parents: an adoptive
mother, an adoptive father, a sperm donor, an egg donor, and a womb donor.

> Digits on left hand

But then the temptation would be to set the max to five, and blow up on
polydactyly.

> Human chromosomes...

Bare X, XXY, XYY.

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