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Root element specified by DTD ?

From: "Andy Dingley <dingbat@----------.--->" <dingbat@----------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 6/2/2006 2:17:00 AM

What specifies the permitted root element(s) for a document ?   HTML,
SGML, XHTML or XML ?


Valid HTML documents need to have a well-known DTD and a doctypedecl in
each document like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

The document's root element is "HTML", and is specified by the
doctypedecl. For HTML and XHTML it's possible that the prose of their
recommendation restricts it too.


My question is, is there any way to author a non-HTML DTD (SGML or XML)
so as to restrict valid documents to only allow a certain subset of
their elements to be used as the root element? Can this restriction be
expressed _entirely_ within a DTD?  Is this used within the HTML DTDs ?
 (i.e. not just in the doctypedecl)

Is this fragment a valid HTML document ?  If not, why isn't it? Just
which part of its definition is forbidding this fragmentary use?
<!DOCTYPE div PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<div>
    <p>Foo</p>
</div>


Good tutorial refs on DTDs are also welcome. I don't know anything like
enough on DTD innards.

Thanks


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