Re: [xml-dev] Unexpected Ambiguous Model in XSD Schema

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>]

On 12/22/2017 12:12 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> If I was coding this as a DTD it would be:
>
> <!ELEMENT figure
>     ((figcaption, (img)+) |
>      ((img)+, figcaption) |
>      ((img)+))
> >
> Which is definitely not ambiguous.
I disagree.  An initial img can match either the second or third img 
token in the content model, thus ambiguous (in the slightly weird SGML 
sense of the term).

In a DTD, I’d use

<!ELEMENT figure
    ((figcaption, img+) |
     (img+, figcaption?)) >

~Chris
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