• To: <mbatsis@n...>,"'Thomas B. Passin'" <tpassin@c...>
• Subject: RE: Can i specify more than one root element in the specification?
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:56:16 -0600
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <3D8F14F8.4050009@n...>

m batsis [mailto:mbatsis@n...] wrote:
> 
> I remember this was confusing for me in my first attempts with 
> W3C XML Schema. My initial impression was that such a spec would 
> allow me to define all my types us global components, while giving 
> me the ability to explicitly choose which ones can possibly play 
> the role of the documentElement...

You could deal with this by factoring your schema so that each document
element is in a file of its own that imports the global types.

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