RE: [xml-dev] XML 2.0

[Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>]

On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 19:31 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
> > What is the benefit of forcing a single root? Catching errors 
> > where the document ends prematurely but on a /*/* boundary.
> 
> And the benefit of NOT forcing a single root is that you can append
> incrementally to log files without the ridiculous workaround of including
> the log file as an external entity into a skeletal document entity whose
> sole function is to provide the unnecessary wrapper element.

Could this and only this be the goal of XML 2.0? Do this and be done
with it. Leave everything else for XML 3.0.

best,
-Rob