Re: [xml-dev] Deterministic Content Models (was DTD ( From EliotteRust Harold's Book))

[Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com>]

John Cowan wrote:
>
> "It is an error" means that 1) no XML document should do this, and 2) an
> XML processor may or may not detect or report it.  So the use of an
> ambiguous (non-deterministic) content model may cause any of the
> following behaviors:
>
> 1) it just works;
> 2) it just fails silently;
> 3) it just generates an error;
> 4) it just makes demons fly out of your nose.

Now, if we could only write a processor that had the behaviour of (4), that
would be real progress.

~Rob