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Re: XSchema: root element

• From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:28:28 +1000

Michael Kay wrote:

> I would certainly like to be able to declare in a DTD that
> certain elements are valid roots and others are not.
> Assuming there is technology to validate a document against
> an XSchema, it moves one more validity check out of my
> application and into the schema.
>
> In the DTDs I have written, very few of the element types
> (often just one) are valid roots, so my own choice of
> default would be INVALID.

Not me - conversion work of legacy data routinely involves pulling documents to
pieces, working on a fragment (such as a table) then putting it all back
together. A language such as OmniMark will allow you to find fragments without
parsing the data around it - under those circumstances, what is proposed is
unduly restrictive.


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