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RE: A parentless element that is not the document node - how?

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: A parentless element that is not the document node - how?
• From: "W. Hugh Chatfield I.S.P." <hchatfield@u...>
• Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:16:03 -0400
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When I worked at Microstar Software [creator of Near & Far Designer] we used
to call these things "scat".

When we opened a DTD in N&FD we would find these orphans visually "off the
tree" as it were [littered around the tree trunk like animal scat]....
something not necessarily obvious merely looking as the ASCII text file.
These typically arose  as a "mistake" originating in the editing of the DTD
during creation, rather than something there by design. I don't remember
finding any particular use for them... so would be interested in hearing if
there is a valid use.

Cheers...Hugh

W. Hugh Chatfield  I.S.P.
CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc.
XML Consulting & Training
http://www.urbanmarket.com/csi2000
visit historic downtown Perth Ontario:  http://www.all-about-perth.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@m...]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:29 AM
To: xml-dev@l...
Cc: Costello,Roger L.
Subject:  A parentless element that is not the document node -
how?


Hi Folks,

The XSLT 2.0 spec talks about "parentless elements".  As far as I know,
there can only be one element in a source document that is parentless -
the document node.  Yet, the XSLT 2.0 spec seems to suggest that there
may be other parentless element nodes.  Can someone tell me what they
may be?  /Roger


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