[Bug 12535] [DM] Definition of 'tree' missing and apparently non-standard

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12535

Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> 2011-05-31 23:07:54 UTC ---
I think it's best to stick to the current model whereby every node belongs to
exactly one tree, and a root node is therefore defined as being a node that has
no parent. If we adopted the alternative definition that every node is the root
of a tree, an awful lot of our terminology would have to change.

(Let's remember that the term comes from botany, not from mathematics. Each
apple in my garden grows on exactly one tree.)

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