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Appendices

5.1 Root Node

The root node is the root of the tree. A root node does not occur except as the root of the tree. The element node for the document element is a child of the root node. The root node also has as children processing instruction and comment nodes for processing instructions and comments that occur in the prolog and after the end of the document element.

The [string-value] of the root node is the concatenation of the [string-value] s of all text node [descendants] of the root node in document order.

The root node does not have an [expanded-name] .