Re: On the subject of rewriting

> On a purely practical level, in ixml it’s easier to make hiding 
> or serializing any nonterminal depend on the context than
> to make it depend on the content.

Ah, yes. The bootstrapping here is a bit brain bending. I *think* what
this means is that simplifying away some of those formulations in the
grammar wouldn’t change the strings recognized, but it would make
generating the correct XML (more) difficult (or impossible).

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica