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RE: XML 2.0

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Rick Jelliffe'" <rjelliffe@a...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:31:05 -0000

> What is the benefit of forcing a single root? Catching errors 
> where the document ends prematurely but on a /*/* boundary.

And the benefit of NOT forcing a single root is that you can append
incrementally to log files without the ridiculous workaround of including
the log file as an external entity into a skeletal document entity whose
sole function is to provide the unnecessary wrapper element.

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

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