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RE: Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: <noah_mendelsohn@u...>,"'Rick Jelliffe'" <rjelliffe@a...>
• Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:19:39 -0000

> The other seems to be: if we could add just a bit, such as 
> allowing more than one root element

That's adding a capability by removing a restriction: when you can make life
easier for users and shorten the spec at the same time, you're on to a
winner.

You could in fact go a step further and remove all distinctions between the
document entity and an external parsed entity.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

• References:
  • RE: XML 2.0
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)
    • From: noah_mendelsohn@u...