On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:16:14AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> With respect, the version pseudoattribute is not optional. From the
> XML Recommendation:
>
> [22] prolog ::= XMLDecl? Misc* (doctypedecl Misc*)?
> [23] XMLDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>'
I think people are actually talking about Text Declarations:
[77] TextDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo? EncodingDecl S? '?>'
And 4.3.3 says it with "Each external parsed entity in an XML document
may use a different encoding for its characters."
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