Menu Specification Comments

[Thomas Leonard]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 05:04:46PM +0200, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:50, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:26, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:37:06AM +0200, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > > > I said it needs a !unique! root element. Menu is not a unique
> > > > element. It can (and does in most cases) appear multiply times in a
> > > > .menu file.
> > >
> > > Ah, I see. I guess we have to add <useless-stupid-root-element>
> > > element then. I will ask Liam or Daniel to explain why that is in the
> > > XML spec. ;-)
> >
> > I've read the XML spec a number of times, and have never seen anything
> > to indicate that a unique root is necessary.  It's just another element,
> > like any other.  In fact, XML doesn't care which element you use as your
> > root element.  Either Heinrich has misread the spec, or I have.
> 
> "There is exactly one element, called the root, or document element, no part 
> of which appears in the content of any other element.]" 
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-well-formed)

This is simply saying that no other element contains the document element
itself (or any part of it). ie, that the document element is the root of
the tree. Other elements are free to have the same name.


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