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Re: Help for finding root node from XML Schema

• To: "Paul Spencer" <xml-dev@b...>
• Subject: Re: Help for finding root node from XML Schema
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:40:46 +0100
• Cc: "Priti Patil" <ppatil@i...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <NBBBIBMKFOFCNEBAKDPLCEIJGHAA.xml-dev@b...> (PaulSpencer's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:44:00 +0100")
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"Paul Spencer" <xml-dev@b...> writes:

> Priti,
>
> It is not possible. A document with "comment" as the root element is just as
> valid as one with "purchaseOrder" as the root element. This is because the
> philosophy of XML Schema is to validate at the element level rather than the
> document level.
>
> I regard this side-effect of that philosophy as a weakness, others don't.

Weakness or strength, it was pretty much necessary, as reconstructing
DTDs was one of the W3C XML Schema WG's prime requirements, and DTDs
have this same property.

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