Re: [xml-dev] New release (2.8) of XSV

Thanks very much!  We did indeed start from the Aho&Ullman ~ Thompson
(not me, the other one) Regexp->NDFA algorithm, which uses epsilons
freely, and then determinised the result.

I do think the unfolding construction is (space) exponential in the
depth of embedding, but I may be mis-remembering -- it's certainly
_not_ linear in the number of particles.

I didn't know about Sethi&Berry, will follow up the reference.

I did look pretty hard for prior work on (Regexp+numeric
exponents)->FSA+counters, but couldn't find any -- if you know of any
I'd very much welcome a pointer.

Thanks

ht
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