"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:

>  Wouldn't it have been better to provide something 
>  analogous to DOCTYPE support where 
>  
>  <!DOCTYPE thisIsTheROOTforThisPass
>  
>  is explicit rathen than relying on syntactic 
>  position which may be accidental?

Not really.  In SGML the DOCTYPE declaration had to say what the root
was, because the start-tag of the root element might not appear in the
instance due to start-tag omission.  In XML there is no start-tag
omission, so it is redundant to specify the root in the DOCTYPE declaration,
as it always must agree with the first and last tags in the instance.

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