On Dec 17, 2003, at 7:52 AM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
>> 1. Why did XML keep the requirement for deterministic models?
>
> ...James Clark and Tim Bray also argued
> that implementations could make good use of the fact
> that legal models are all deterministic, and wanted
> to retain it for that reason, as well.
For the record: I argued *ferocioiusly* against the non-determinism
rule and was voted down. Whereupon I made good use of non-determinism
in the 'Larval' validation layer on top of the original Lark parser :)
-Tim
