mark_fletcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I understand that a DOCTYPE declaration can contain any valid element in
> the DTD.

The name of the element pointed to by the document type declaration
can be any Name at all, sure. But why does it matter to you?
A non-validating parser doesn't care what the name is.

It only makes a difference when using a validating parser, in which
case it must be the name of the root/document element of that document.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#vc-roottype

Mike

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