RE: XSV choice validation

Thank you very much. 


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From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk]
Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 3:29 PM
To: Vaughan, Dallas
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Subject: Re: XSV choice validation
 
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Vaughan, Dallas writes:

> When using the online XSV tool at http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv, the following schema did not pass because of a "non-deterministic content model" within the choice element.  Here is what didn't pass:
>
> [ ((a{1,5},b?,c?)|(b{1,5},c?)|c) ]

> The output from XSV was: 
>
> "Invalid: non-deterministic content model for type None: {None}:B/{None}:B"
>
> However, changing the maxOccurs="5" in the first element ("A") to maxOccurs="1" results in a successful validation.  
>
> Is there a faulty algorithm in XSV that decides what is
> non-deterministic and what is not?

No, but there is a conspiracy between the UPA checking algorithm and
the numeric exponent translator which amounts to a bug.

Fixed in the next release.

Thanks for the reproducable example.

ht
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