XSchema: root element

Simon St.Laurent SimonStL at classic.msn.com
Fri Jul 3 21:38:44 BST 1998


cMichael Kay wrote:
>In the DTDs I have written, very few of the element types
>(often just one) are valid roots, so my own choice of
>default would be INVALID.

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>In the DTDs I have written, almost all of the element types
>(often all) are valid roots, so my own choice of
>default would be VALID. :-)

This situation is exactly why I think we need three choices, where Possible is 
the default.  Hopefully, that'll keep us out of trouble.

Simon St.Laurent
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