RE: XSLT and Text Processing Languages

[Matthew Bentley <Matthew.bentley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The XML output method must emit a well-formed external general parsed
>entity. So it is OK to put a text node as a child of the root node,
>*except* when that text node would be something that you can't put inside
>a document element. So it's actually the reverse of what I said ... you
>can create non-whitespace but you can't create a <!DOCTYPE> (which must
>come before the document element).

Certainly, you are correct that you can't put a doctype inside an element.
But in case you've forgotten, the root node is not an element.

M@
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