In his Relax NG book Eric van der Vlist notes that the reason
non-deterministic schema patterns were disallowed in some schema
languages was the concern that they could lead to exponential growth
in computation times in schema processing, at least with finite
state-machine implementations [1].  Is this a concern with jing?  I'm
adjusting a schema to be non-deterministic in several respects, and my
a quick validation test using jing and time across the whole body of
existing content shows no consistent time difference whatsoever.
Should I be concerned about going non-deterministic?

[1] 
<http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/relax-CHP-16-SECT-1.html#relax-CHP-16-SECT-1.1>

Thanks
Chuck Bearden

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