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- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:30:31 -0500
At 09:49 2000 06 23 -0700, Andrew n marshall wrote:
>I can't seem to determine how an XML DTD defines which elements can be
>root elements.
It doesn't. Any element can be the document element (which is
what it's called rather than "root element").
>For example:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
><?xml version='1.0'?>
><!DOCTYPE a PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
><a href="#">This link IS this document.</a>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>The above seems perfectly legal according to the XML standard,
It is.
>yet I don't think that was ever intended.
Yes it was. (Same this is true for SGML.)
> Am I missing something?
Not really, you're just not believing what you're seeing.
>By the way, I came across this problem when trying to determine whether
>the root DocBook entity should be 'set' or 'book', so it might actually
>make sense to allow multiple possible root elements.
It absolutely does make sense which is why it is allowed.
paul
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