Re: parsing ambiguous schema

Lingzhi Zhang <lzhang@cse.ogi.edu> writes:

> below is a non-deterministic schema, it is unable to determine,
> without looking ahead to the next element, if the apple element is
> the first part of the sequence of apple and berry or the first part
> of the sequence of apple and coffee. which parser could parse xml document
> agains this kind of schema?

No conformant processor will schema-validate using this schema -- it
violates the Unique Particle Attribution constraint on schemas, as you
correctly point out.

ht
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