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Re: Define a root in a DTD

• From: David.L.Eiland@f...
• To: christine.coisy@m...
• Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:34:45 -0500

christine.coisy@m... wrote:
>     I have few elements in a DTD and I want to explicity declare one as the
root
> to be used in XML, not the others, is there a way for that ?

As has been pointed out by others, you can't do this in the DTD. What
hasn't been mentioned is that you effectively create this constraint in
the document type declaration:

  <!DOCTYPE myRoot SYSTEM "uri-of-some-dtd">

...says that this document is of type "myRoot", and thus its root/document
element is going to be one of those "myRoot" elements, a type of element
for which the content model can be found in the specified DTD.

   - Mike
_____________________________________________________________________________
mike j. brown, software engineer     |  xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/
in denver, colorado, USA             |  personal: http://hyperreal.org/~mike/

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