Re: Define a root in a DTD

[Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>]

christine.coisy@modicon.com wrote:
>     I have few elements in a DTD and I want to explicity declare one as the root
> to be used in XML, not the others, is there a way for that ?

As has been pointed out by others, you can't do this in the DTD. What
hasn't been mentioned is that you effectively create this constraint in
the document type declaration:

  <!DOCTYPE myRoot SYSTEM "uri-of-some-dtd">

...says that this document is of type "myRoot", and thus its root/document
element is going to be one of those "myRoot" elements, a type of element
for which the content model can be found in the specified DTD.

   - Mike
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