> Its a common practice for everybody, who needs to come up with formal proofs. 
> You start with the most simplified definitions possible, that capture the 
> essence of the problem.
> Then you get the skeleton of the proof that is hopefully very simple. Then 
> you can add details back, hoping that the proof remains simple and tractable.
>
> So imagine starting the proof while considering all the possible variations 
> of path expressions, all the Infoset stuff, all XML Schema details. I think 
> its hopeless.

I’m completely in line with Michael’s observations. It would obviously
be nice to have proofs for the full rule sets of the discussed
languages; but as experience shows, no one will do it (the rare
exception might prove the rule), so we are stuck with the work that is
of limited practical use.

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