Re: [xml] How do you detect if a xml file has a root node??

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:55:59AM -0400, Kali, Jayashree wrote:
> How do I detect if the file has a root node or not? 

  An XML file has one and only one root node, by definition, 
    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-document

> I mean how do I make the difference between the below xml file and the
> above xml file.
> 
> <!-some comment generated.."  -->
> 
> <RootNode>
> 
> <Node1>data</Node1>
> 
> </RootNode>

  There is still only one root node here, 

> I need to know it before parsing the whole file, 

  I don't think you can, and I feel some confusion

Daniel

-- 
Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/
Daniel Veillard      | virtualization library  http://libvirt.org/
veillard redhat com  | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine  http://rpmfind.net/