[relax-ng] Re: RELAX NG 2.0 ideas

[Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi@Sun.COM>]

> <min count="3">
>   <element name="product"><text/></element>
> </min>
> 
> <max count="3">
>   <element name="product"><text/></element>
> </max>
> 
> <min count="2">
>  <max count="10">
>   <element name="product"><text/></element>
>  </max>
> </min>

This doesn't make sense to me. I suppose the semantics of

<max count="n">
   p
</max>

is "p can be repeated up to n times"

and similarly the semantics of <min> would be "p must be repeated at
least n times."

If so, it should be allowed to repeat <product> 20 times in the
following example:

> <min count="2">
>  <max count="10">
>   <element name="product"><text/></element>
>  </max>
> </min>

since that the outer <min> says is that you can repeat <product>*10 up
to 2 times. I guess this is not what you want.


So I think it needs to be something like <repeat min="n" max="m"> as
we've discussed in the very early days of RELAX NG.


regards,
--
Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi@sun.com