Berin Loritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You are probably the victim of an XML parser getting more strict with > the XML spec. > > Having comments outside the root element of a document is _not_ well > formed, and any XML parser is free to reject that. If you move those > comments INSIDE the root element, you should also lose the exceptions.
Is this true? The production rules for XML 1.0 (second edition) say:
[1] document ::= prolog element Misc* ^^ This is the root element. [22] prolog ::= XMLDecl? Misc* (doctypedecl Misc*)? [27] Misc ::= Comment | PI | S
No comments are allowed before the XML declaration, but they are allowed directly behind it and before the beginning of the root element. Otherwise 90% of my XML documents would be invalid.
I wonder if this happens when the xml declaration is missing?
Geoff
