Roots of the DTD

[Simon St.Laurent]

Matt Mower wrote:
>Given that the DTD doesn't define the root element a tool cannot
>immediately know how to start creating the document - leaving this
>choice up to the user, who may also not know.
>
>When writing a particular DTD I would like the *option* of being able to
>specify what the root element *must* be for a document that wants to
>conform (is that right word?)  It's my type of document after all!

This seems like an excellent idea - one I would have missed, given my crazy 
tendencies toward hand-building XML documents.  It's certainly something we 
should consider as part of the Doc element for the XSchema, or perhaps it 
deserves its own place.  At the very least, I would hope this information 
would appear in the human-readable documentation we're enabling in XSchemas.

Simon St.Laurent
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