doctype declaration

I use Internet Explorer 5 and I find that the <!doctype> declaration at the head
of  my pages is always assigned the node value document.childNodes[0], whereas I
expect  that node to correspond to <HTML>. Is this correct? - or is it a failure
fo IE5 to render the DOM correctly.

patrick brennan
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Received on Monday, 10 July 2000 11:59:31 UTC