Re: XML strictness

[Per Bothner]

Robert Schuster wrote:
> You get the same message with all proprietary JDKs prior to 1.5 . The
> latest incarnation however accepts creating the <new> node and generates
> the following XML upon calling 'echo "<a/>" |
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0/bin/java xmlfilter.XMLFilter':
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <a/>
> <new/>
>
> AFAIK there should/must be only one top-level node which is named <xml>.
>
> I am confused ...
> Is Sun breaking the rules here?

Depends on which set of rules.  The "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data
Model" is a bit more general:
See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#DocumentNode
Of course an *XML document* is somewhat more restricted,
but if you want to use DOM to support XQuery/XPath/XSLT objects
it makes sense to allow more generality.
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