Re: A "unordered" compositor ?

David Bourget <dbourget@videotron.ca> writes:

> I might just not have well understood the current specs, but I think an
> unordered compositor would be really great, I always missed this with
> DTDs. That is, a compositor meaning "Any sequence of these elements,
> within the limits of their minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes". 
> 
> Why:
> To achieve the same result as in :
> <!ELEMENT (foo | bar)*>
> <!-- Foo and bar can appear zero or one time each -->
> WITHOUT requiring to comments.

That's what the 'all' group is for, except we don't support the 'zero' 
case.  We'll probably fix that.

<complexType>
 <all>
  <element ref='foo'/>
  <element ref='bar'/>
 </all>
</complexType>

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