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When I worked at Microstar Software [creator of Near & Far Designer] we used to call these things "scat". When we opened a DTD in N&FD we would find these orphans visually "off the tree" as it were [littered around the tree trunk like animal scat].... something not necessarily obvious merely looking as the ASCII text file. These typically arose as a "mistake" originating in the editing of the DTD during creation, rather than something there by design. I don't remember finding any particular use for them... so would be interested in hearing if there is a valid use. Cheers...Hugh W. Hugh Chatfield I.S.P. CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc. XML Consulting & Training http://www.urbanmarket.com/csi2000 visit historic downtown Perth Ontario: http://www.all-about-perth.com -----Original Message----- From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@m...] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:29 AM To: xml-dev@l... Cc: Costello,Roger L. Subject: A parentless element that is not the document node - how? Hi Folks, The XSLT 2.0 spec talks about "parentless elements". As far as I know, there can only be one element in a source document that is parentless - the document node. Yet, the XSLT 2.0 spec seems to suggest that there may be other parentless element nodes. Can someone tell me what they may be? /Roger ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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