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hi Roger,
i'm somewhat astonished : if i need to express that the number of books
mustn't exceed 30000, then i will really use <element name="Book"
maxOccurs="30000"> because W3C Schema specification allow it ; if the
schema engine is inefficient to process it without causing out-of-memory
errors, then i will change the engine or report a bug
Roger L. Costello wrote:
>
> There is a technical problem with setting maxOccurs="30000". Michael Kay
> nicely summarizes the problem: "the classical algorithms for turning
> grammars into finite state machines produce very inefficient machines
> when there are occurrence limits that are large but finite. Many schema
> processors break or consume seriously large amounts of memory if you
> specify a maxOccurs value (other than unbounded) that's greater than a
> couple of hundred." In other words, a Schema validator will choke if you
> specify maxOccurs="30000".
>
i have another conclusion : if this algorithm is inefficient with large
values, why not switch to a more suitable one for small values ?
what is the challenge ? to implement classical algorithms that apply
theory of computation, or to make relyable softwares ?
be pragmatic !
>
> <element name="Bookstore">
> <complexType>
> <sequence>
> <element name="Book" type="..." *maxOccurs="unbounded"*>
> *<schematron:assert test="count(Book) <= 30000"/>*
> </element>
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
> </element>
>
> Comments?
>
using Schematron to express assertions that W3C Schema can't is
certainly a good thing ; using Schematron as a hack to correct
inefficiency of a schema engine is a non-sense (except if you bought one
that you must use etc)
--
Cordialement,
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