• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: An approach to let XML 2.n resources hold multipleentities
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:19:11 -0800
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> A couple of times people have suggested that XML should allow multiple top-level 
> elements. Thinking about it, here is one possible approach that might fit in with existing
> systems with fairly minimal changes.

Here's a simpler proposal. Take this:

[1]    document    ::=    prolog element Misc*

And make it:

[1]    document    ::=    prolog (element Misc*)*

This is not straightforwardly SGML compatible, but I think it is 
significantly easier these days to change SGML than it is to change XML. 
  Throw another TC on the fire.

  Paul Prescod

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