Re: Newbie Question

Sean Mc grath (digitome@iol.ie)
Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:53:56 +0100


[Nigel Byrnes]

>C:\msxml>jview msxml -d1 me\simple.xml
>Root element name must match the DOCTYPE name

A validating XML parser enforces the constraint that the root
element of the document matches the element type name specified
in the doctype. So this snippet is ok:

<!DOCTYPE foo "bar.dtd">
<foo>

(foo matches foo)

but this is not:

<!DOCTYPE foo "bar.dtd">
<baz>

(foo does not match baz)

Non-validating parsers, on the other hand, don't care.

Sean Mc Grath
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