On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:30 PM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Thanks much. Chuck
