[Bug 5896] Description of particles and terms in 2.2.3.2 confusing

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5896





--- Comment #3 from Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com>  2009-07-25 08:42:56 ---
Thinking about this some more, I'm not sure whether a particle is a synonym in
the grammar for 'element content' or whether particles are the entities that
are used to describe element content.  I've adopted thelatter in the revised
attempt below:

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A [Definition:]  Term is either an element declaration, a wildcard or a model
group. All ·Terms· are themselves ·Annotated Components·. [Definition:]  A
basic term is an Element Declaration or a Wildcard. 

A [Definition:] particle consists of a Term, together with occurrence
constraints.  Particles describe element content.  Particles contribute to
·validation· as part of complex type definition ·validation·, when they allow
anywhere from zero to many element information items or sequences thereof,
depending on their contents and occurrence constraints.

[Definition:]  A basic particle is a Particle whose {term} is a ·basic term·.


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