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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> Wouldn't it have been better to provide something
> analogous to DOCTYPE support where
>
> <!DOCTYPE thisIsTheROOTforThisPass
>
> is explicit rathen than relying on syntactic
> position which may be accidental?
Not really. In SGML the DOCTYPE declaration had to say what the root
was, because the start-tag of the root element might not appear in the
instance due to start-tag omission. In XML there is no start-tag
omission, so it is redundant to specify the root in the DOCTYPE declaration,
as it always must agree with the first and last tags in the instance.
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