basic XML question re: Xerces 2003-02-12 - By Andy Clark
Swanson, Brion wrote:
> I just ran sax.Counter (Xerces 2.2.0) with the following input file:
>
> <root>
> <temp>
> <root/>
> </temp>
> </root>
>
> It worked completely fine and did not throw a SAXParseException. Is this a
> well-formed document? I would think not based on the W3C definition:
>
> [Definition: There is exactly one element, called the root, or document
> element, no part of which appears in the content of any other element.]
Your sample document *does* only have a single root
element. However, other elements can appear in the
document with the same *name* as the root element's.
--
Andy Clark * andyc@(protected)
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