• From: David.L.Eiland@f...
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:34:42 -0500

At 17:31 26/06/2001 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
>The root element is always the one that
>does not appear in the content model of any other element
>type.

<!DOCTYPE foo [
<!ELEMENT foo (foo?)>
]>
<foo>
</foo>

:-)

Seriously though, any element in a DTD can be the root of a document.
Many DTDs have an element type that is typically the root but XML does
not enforce "rootness". Some DTDs make explicit use of this fact e.g.
Docbook.

Sean




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