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Thanks for your answer. ... But I'm not completely happy with it for a couple reasons: 1) I don't think there *is* a recognized namespace for docbook. 2) It can only tell me a xhtml-RDDL document is an xhtml document. "DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" wrote: ... > If you know the name of the root element, and you know the > namespace that it's from, then you know a hell of a lot about the potential > processing that you can do with that document. As you pointed out, knowing > the name of the root element ("It's a chapter") doesn't always tell you all > you need to know and knowing the namespace alone ("list the docbook > documents") doesn't either, but the root element and its namespace together > (a chapter from the docbook DTD) tells you a great deal about what you can > do with it. Best, Bill
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