• To: clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)")
• Subject: Re: Interesting mailing list & a rare broadside
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:14:42 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: elitani@c... ('Elena Litani'), simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B536@HQ5> from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" at Jun 05, 2002 02:54:54 PM

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:

> Wouldn't it have been better to provide something 
> analogous to DOCTYPE support where 
> 
> <!DOCTYPE thisIsTheROOTforThisPass
> 
> is explicit rathen than relying on syntactic 
> position which may be accidental?

Not really.  In SGML the DOCTYPE declaration had to say what the root
was, because the start-tag of the root element might not appear in the
instance due to start-tag omission.  In XML there is no start-tag
omission, so it is redundant to specify the root in the DOCTYPE declaration,
as it always must agree with the first and last tags in the instance.

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