Chuck Bearden scripsit: > 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?
No, be as non-deterministic as you want. Jing is not a finite-state implementation, so it doesn't have those problems. -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; [email protected] Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; http://ccil.org/~cowan Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner)
