Re: Non-deterministic or wrong partition?

"Ashok Malhotra" <ashokma@microsoft.com> writes:

> Despite the fact that multiple non-normative portions of the spec make
> it clear that ambiguous content-models were not intended to be allowed,

I contest this -- _my_ motivation was what the constraint is named --
unique attribution.

Having said that, your example is thought-provoking.  I note however
that

<!ELEMENT f ((a+,b?)*)>

is valid XML.

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