Re: C.10 Allow nondeterministic content models?

At 1:23 PM 10/17/96, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
>On 23 October 1996, the ERB will vote to decide the following
>question.  A straw poll indicates the question needs further
>discussion in the work group.
>
>C.10 Should XML allow nondeterministic content models (11.2.4.3)?

Yes, but if we do that, why not full regular expressions? We trashed that
(unwisely) in the name of SGML compatibility. I don't understand the
reasoning here.

   -- David

RE delenda est.

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