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Right, but mechanically, one has to ask the instance before getting the schema. It seems inefficient. And with a DOCTYPE, one could parse subtrees by changing that value and ignoring the outer tags. Not always but occasionally useful so yet another lost functionality. len From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit: > Wouldn't it have been better to provide something > analogous to DOCTYPE support where > > <!DOCTYPE thisIsTheROOTforThisPass > > is explicit rathen than relying on syntactic > position which may be accidental? Not really. In SGML the DOCTYPE declaration had to say what the root was, because the start-tag of the root element might not appear in the instance due to start-tag omission. In XML there is no start-tag omission, so it is redundant to specify the root in the DOCTYPE declaration, as it always must agree with the first and last tags in the instance.
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