Re: Model group ambiguities

MURATA Makoto (murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 11:17:29 +0900

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James K. Tauber wrote:
> My understanding was that SGML content models have to be deterministic to
> start with in order to avoid problems with automatic reduction to DFAs
> because of and groups, etc.

Prof. Anne Brugemann-Klein strongly believes that this restriction
is an extremely bad idea. I would strongly recommend full support of
non-deterministic content models. Otherwise, DTD transformation will become
impossible, since translated DTD's cannot always be captured by deterministic
content models.

Makoto

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