>no part of the *unique* root element may appear anywhere else in the 
document 

That is not the intent of the language. The root element is not "unique" 
in any sense except that of being the only top-level element in the 
document.

>I'm fairly certain that in the past I've encountered DTDs that did not 
allow
>the root element to exist anywhere within the document

A specific DTD/schema can apply whatever additional constraints it wants 
to, of course. But that's the decision of whoever designed that document 
type. It isn't something XML forced upon them.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research


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