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Redecleration of Element

• From: dt@g... (Dennis Thrysoe - GeoGrafik A/S)
• To: "xml-dev" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:20:49 +0100

Hi,

I am standing here with a legacy issue. A system was designed to be flexible
be changing the "dataroot" element.

This implies changing the documentroot element's defenition:

<!ELEMENT DOCROOT (A)>

or sometimes

<!ELEMENT DOCROOT (B)>

I need some help arguing against this practive, as I feel it is against the
spirit of XML and declarative documents. Does anybody know of some
litterature or a discussion of this anywhere?

TIA,

-dennis


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