Root Rule Activation and Scope

Section 3.2 Scoping of Rule Definitions states:  "One exception is that a
rule declared as the root may be referenced externally even if it is a
private rule."

Questions:

   What if you are just working with one grammar?
   Can/should a private root rule be activated?
   Should a root rule always be treated as public?

I'm most interested in the second question.

     Thanks.

Example 1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE grammar PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD GRAMMAR 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/grammar.dtd">
<grammar mode="voice" root="myroot" version="1.0" xmlns
="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar">
  <rule id="myroot">open window</rule>
</grammar>

Example 2:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE grammar PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD GRAMMAR 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/grammar.dtd">
<grammar mode="voice" root="myroot" version="1.0" xmlns
="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar">
  <rule id="myroot" scope="private">open window</rule>
</grammar>

--
Mitch Allen, x13625, Dictaphone Burlington SQA



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