>The XML declaration is not a processing instruction, it only looks like
one.
True. See the DOM FAQ's answer on this (at http://www.w3.org/DOM/faq.html).
>It really isn't appropriate for it be to in the DOM since it describes how
>the document is encoded in a particular file.
Not quite so true. It isn't handled in current versions of the DOM, but DOM
Level 3 intends to add fields to handle this information.
>The appropriate thing is to have your serializer code (which is the only
>thing that knows what encoding you are using) write the XML declaration to
>the file.
True for now. Or "manually" write that data to the output stream before you
start running the serializer.
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