Appending to an XML document

[Clark C. Evans]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Don Park wrote:
> IMHO, this is a parser implementation problem.
> I do not know of a single XML parser that expects
> more than one XML document in a file or a stream
> input.

I tend to agree here.  If a DOM parser encounters
more than one root element, it could easily
create a root element, say by grabbing the 
name of the file.  If a SAX parser encounters
more than one root element, it should just
proceed by ending the first 'root' element,
and then starting the next one.  The only 
alternative is to have your log file 
open a root element and then never 
terminate it -- I think the parser should
handle this as well.

Why would this be a problem?

Clark




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