>I think I'm about to give up on DTDs, even with a shell XML document loaded that has the DTD and the topmost structure of the DTD it's possible to add nodes to the DOM tree that do not conform to the DTD. Using AppendChild() can alter the order of the elements.
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Off the subject here, but isn't it wierd to have an XML document in which the order of the elements is important? Aren't the elements being retrieved by name anyway? I thought that to be valid, a document only had to conform to the correct hierarchy of nodes, not the right order.