recursing root element

[John Cowan]

Frank Boumphrey wrote:

> >From my reading of section 2.1 it isn't but the MSXML parser lets it stand,
> so I'm probabably wrong.

It's legal.  2.1 says not that there can be only one element with
the same element type as the root element, but that there can be
only one element in root position.  In other words, these are illegal:

	<foo></foo><foo></foo>

	<foo></foo><bar></bar>

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