def validateRoot(self, ctxt):
        """Try to validate a the root element basically it does the
          following check as described by the XML-1.0 recommendation:
          - [ VC: Root Element Type ] it doesn't try to recurse or
           apply other check to the element """
        if ctxt is None: ctxt__o = None
        else: ctxt__o = ctxt._o
        ret = libxml2mod.xmlValidateRoot(ctxt__o, self._o)
        return ret