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Vaughan, Dallas writes:

> When using the online XSV tool at http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv, =
the following schema did not pass because of a "non-deterministic content m=
odel" within the choice element.  Here is what didn't pass:
>
> [ ((a{1,5},b?,c?)|(b{1,5},c?)|c) ]

> The output from XSV was: 
>
> "Invalid: non-deterministic content model for type None: {None}:B/{None}:=
B"
>
> However, changing the maxOccurs="5" in the first element ("A") to maxOc=
curs="1" results in a successful validation.  
>
> Is there a faulty algorithm in XSV that decides what is
> non-deterministic and what is not?

No, but there is a conspiracy between the UPA checking algorithm and
the numeric exponent translator which amounts to a bug.

Fixed in the next release.

Thanks for the reproducable example.

ht
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