xml-dev - Redecleration of Element

[dt@geografik.dk (Dennis Thrysoe - GeoGrafik A/S)]

Hi,

I am standing here with a legacy issue. A system was designed to be flexible
be changing the "dataroot" element.

This implies changing the documentroot element's defenition:

<!ELEMENT DOCROOT (A)>

or sometimes

<!ELEMENT DOCROOT (B)>

I need some help arguing against this practive, as I feel it is against the
spirit of XML and declarative documents. Does anybody know of some
litterature or a discussion of this anywhere?

TIA,

-dennis


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