Two questions on Regex's

In the regular expression specification in XML Schema part 2,
The first set of rules declares "The ^ character is only valid at the
beginning of a *positive character group*
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/>  if it is part of a *negative
character group* <http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/> ", where
    negCharGroup ::- '^' posCharGroup

does this in fact mean that the following are true:
1)	The ^ character may appear anywhere except the first position of
a <pcg>, if the <pcg> is not part of a <ncg>. (It is obvious that the ^
cannot be in the first position of a <pcg>, or it would match the
definition of a <ncg>)        E.g. [a^b] is a legal <pcg>, but [^ab] is
of course a <ncg>
      If the <pcg> is part of a <ncg>, then any position of the <pcg>
may contain a ^. E.g. [^^abc] and [^ab^c] are both
      legal.
2)	The second set of rules state that an 's-e character range'
describes a range of XML characters. Is this second set of rules
building upon the first set of rules above them? We think not, looking
at the BNF production above both sets of rules - XmlCharIncDash is
defined for a single character, whereas XmlChar/SingleCharEsc are
defined for a character range. What is confusing is if the second set of
rules is not built on top of the first set of rules, then the rules 's
is not \' and 'e is not \ or [' are redundant because the production of
XmlChar already disallows the characters '\', '[', and ']'. If these
rules are not redundant, then that means the following is implied to be
legal:
i.	[ab]-c] matches 'a', 'b', and any character between ']' (U+5D)
and 'c' (U+63). It seems strange that this would be legal, because it
would be complicated for a regex parser to know that if a '-' follows a
']' in a <pcg>, then this ']' *may* not signify the end of the <pcg>.
But if the regex is [ab]-c, then that ']' would signify the end of the
<pcg>, and it would match 'a' or 'b' followed by '-c'.

Many thanks!

All the best, Ashok 
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