[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I agree to a certain extent, but by analogy > > <!DOCTYPE a [ > <!ELEMENT a (b | c*)+> > ]> > <a></a> > > is a valid SGML/XML document and their is a lot of (superficial?) > similarity between DTD content models and REs.
they're related, but they don't have the same semantics (Python uses a backtracking engine, while the DTD model is a true DFA). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
