Re: process-node-list, select-element, etc.....

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Pursel wrote:
> 
> Wow.  This is exactly what I needed.  I modified my document only
> slightly, per your clue, and it works!  I just had to add one
> empty element 'header' to make things work.  I honestly don't
> understand what the benefit of all the complexity is though.  Why
> can't all elements in a document just be treated equally?  

The root construction rule does not match an element, but the
sgml-document node, which represents all of the elements and the DTD etc.
I think your real question is "why doesn't the sgml-document node have the
document element as a child." That might be convenient sometimes, but I
don't think that the current way is wrong. Would the DTD also be a "child"
of the sgml-document node?

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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