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Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:
> I grant that in more cases than not, leaving the max
> occurrences infinite works, but wasn't the lack of
> being able to model a finite set one of the precise
> reasons for critiqueing DTD modeling?
It might have been an excuse, but not a reason: m,n-bounded
repetition can definitely be done in DTDs, though it is
even more annoying than in RNG, where f,f,f,f?,f?,f?,f? is
legal for f{3,7} as it is not in DTDs, where you must
say f,f,f,(f,(f,(f,f?)?)?)?.
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