Reliable endpoints for XML docs (and doclets)

Thu Mar 5 19:21:35 GMT 1998

Tom Bannon <bannon at objs.com> writes:

> Perhaps I've missed something, but I don't see that the start 
> and end points of XML documents are well defined, ie. something 
> like <xml> and </xml>, akin to HTML's <html> and </html>.

Yes, you've missed something :-).  HTML has <html> and </html> because
there is an implied (if missing)

  <!doctype HTML system>

at the beginning of every HTML document.  In XML you will have an explicit

  <!doctype TOP system "mine.dtd">

that will say that this document's top element is <top>...</top>.

-- 
  Ken MacLeod
  ken at bitsko.slc.ut.us

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