This procedure is defined in the server but not documented via ad_proc or proc_doc and may be intended as a private interface.
The procedure is defined as:
proc sgml::nullable {nodeType rep name subtree} { switch -glob -- $rep:$nodeType { :leaf - +:leaf { return [list {} 0] } \\*:leaf - \\?:leaf { return [list {} 1] } \\*:nonterm - \\?:nonterm { return [list $subtree 1] } :nonterm - +:nonterm { switch -- $name { :choice { set result 0 foreach child $subtree { set result [expr {$result || [lindex $child 1]}] } } :seq { set result 1 foreach child $subtree { set result [expr {$result && [lindex $child 1]}] } } } return [list $subtree $result] } } }