Optimizing a schema.

Hi folks,

I have a need to optimize an xml schema into its simplest DFA form.
Currently I have a number of xslt stylesheets that I wrote which essentially
flattens a schema and converts the whole thing to a state automaton in JSON
to be used in a client side validator I wrote.

However, the schemas I am working with right now (From the DITA open
toolkit) when flattened have a ton of unnecessary nested structures, for
instance things like this pop up:

<xs:sequence>
 <xs:choice>
  <xs:sequence>
   <xs:choice>
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element/>
      </xs:sequence>
     <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element/>
      </xs:sequence>
     </xs:sequence>
    </xs:choice>
   </xs:sequence>
  </xs:choice>
 </xs:sequence>

The validator works great on smaller schemas, but as its written in
javascript these huge unnecessary structures slow it down a lot.

I am assuming that other schema processors simplify things like this and
before I wrote my own wanted to check with the community.

Cheers,

Casey
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