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Re: [xml-dev] When maxOccurs=1 means an unbounded number of occurrences is valid

> On Nov 20, 2017, at 4:13 PM, yamahito <yamahito@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
> I would disagree only with your initial interpretation: I think minOccurs=1 - I think 'exactly' trumps 'MAY'.
> 
> Interested to see if the list thinks differently!

In ABNF, for any expression E the form *1E is short for 0*1E and means 
zero occurrences or one occurrence of E.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234#section-3.6 

In this case I think the MAY is reflecting the default value of 0 for the 
left-hand argument of *.

 
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