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Fixing contains and minContains #1446

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Currently contains and minContains are defined so that if minContains has a value of 0, it changes the validation result of contains. There are two problems with this:

  1. Keywords are allowed to change their own behavior, but not the behavior of other keywords

    Keywords MAY modify their behavior based on the presence or absence of another keyword in the same schema object - Core 7.2

  2. contains is defined in Core, whereas minContains (and maxContains) is defined in Validation (the spec, not the vocab).

Ideally, all of the logic should be defined for contains: contains looks at minContains and maxContains to determine the appropriate bounds. This behavior fixes the first problem.

In order to address the second, we'd either need to move contains to Validation (but it's still an applicator), or we'd need to move minContains and maxContains to Core. There's also the issue that unevaluatedItems now depends on contains, which seems to support moving min/maxContains.

So, do min/maxContains work in Core? What vocab would they be a part of? The only vocab is applicators and they're not applicators.

Alternatively, can we move the entire applicator vocab out of Core into Validation? Does Core need applicators?

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