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Re: This can't be right, XML with no root element: Saxon & XT vs. Xalan



> So it appears to me that anything referenced by &xxx; *might* just be
> character data.

Oh yes of course, it may not have any element tags, but it is always
parsed as XML.  You can't, in XML, include a text file and ask that it
not be parsed. It may just be characters but it is always (in SGML
terms) _P_CDATA: and < or & will be taken as XML markup.

David

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