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Re: [xml-dev] Deterministic Content Models (was DTD ( From Eliotte



At 5:06 PM +0100 9/27/01, Richard Tobin wrote:

>I would be interested to know whether the validating parsers that
>don't report an error correctly check the content of the corresponding
>elements.  They won't if they just build a finite-state machine in the
>straightforward way.
>

I just checked Xerces-J 1.4.3 with various invalid variations of the document and it correctly detected and reported all of them, so whatever it's doing seems to work. 
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