PureXML/docs/design
Mihaela Mihaljevic 6f8222a840 feat(schema): compositional UPA determinism, delete positionCap
The Unique Particle Attribution check no longer inlines group references or caps.
A new CompositionalDeterminism engine computes first/followlast over particle
identities and summarizes each xs:group once, so a multiply-referenced nested
group whose inlined Glushkov automaton would be 2^K positions is checked in
O(nodes * particles^2) time. ContentModelDeterminism now delegates to it and the
inlining position automaton plus positionCap are deleted, closing the last named
interactive-safety resource-bound blocker (production-readiness stopper #4) and
the silent under-rejection the cap caused (stopper #3).

The compositional engine was proven verdict-equivalent to the prior inlining
automaton by a differential over the entire XSTS corpus (zero divergences) before
replacing it. The followlast detail was essential: a first attempt that emitted a
repeating end-item's loop-back and the suffix-first as separate decision sets
under-detected 13 XSTS content models; the differential caught every one.

Verification: XSTS gate unchanged (invalid-schemas-accepted 15, valid-schemas-
rejected 0, instance buckets held); SchemaDeterminismGroupBlowupTests compiles a
2^20-position model without hanging and rejects an ambiguous one the old cap would
have skipped (WASI uses a smaller depth, native time limits gated off WASI); full
suite, style, namespacing, and WASM all pass. The per-particle model and QName-only
overlap are preserved, so the false-positive direction stays at zero.
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