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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:45:19AM -0400, AndrewWatt2000@xxxxxxx wrote: > When writing about XML and its family of technologies today is it possible > to use a single, unambiguous term for each of the following two concepts - > > 1. what in the XPath Recommendation is represented as the "root node" > (also referred to as the "document root") and > > 2. what the XML 1.0 Recommendation calls the "document element"? [...] > May I propose that the following be the standard terms: > > For item 1. - "document root" > > For item 2. - "element root" I would suggest a slight variation on this: For item 1. - "document root" For item 2. - "root element" With respect to the XPath date model, these two are the "document root node" and the "root element node". > I believe we do need some clear, unambigous, non-clumsy way to > communicate these ideas across XML technologies. Certainly. Michael ____________________________________________ http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/~msf/ Multimedia Databases Group, RMIT, Australia. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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