Re: Should this schema be invalid?

Henry Thompson writes:

>> There is linear cost in FSM size for top-level numeric
>> exponents.  Nested numeric exponents are geometricallhy
>> expensive.  Matt Fuchs once alleged he knew how to beat
>> this.  If so, great.  If not, I'd prefer to legislate
>> it out of existence, i.e. rule out numeric min/max
>> (other than 0 and 1) except at the top-level of content
>> models.

Sounds right to me (though I think this is an incompatible change, and 
would have to wait for such time as we might decide to do an incompatible 
release of the language.)  Thanks!

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Received on Tuesday, 6 August 2002 13:30:09 UTC