• From: John Snelson <john.snelson@o...>
• To: bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:50:25 +0000

Hi Bryan,

That's not well formed - the first error you should get is because there 
is non-whitespace text content outside the document element.

The next error is that there is a processing instruction that uses the 
reserved name "xml" - it doesn't count as an XML declaration unless the 
"<" is the first character in the file.

John

bryan rasmussen wrote:
> Should the following response to a GET be well-formed:
> 
> <= Recv data, 423 bytes (0x1a7)
> 0000: 31 39 62 0d 0a 3c 3f 78 6d 6c 20 76 65 72 73 69 19b..<?xml versi
> 0010: 6f 6e 3d 22 31 2e 30 22 20 65 6e 63 6f 64 69 6e on="1.0" encodin
> 0020: 67 3d 22 55 54 46 2d 38 22 3f 3e 3c 6b 6d 6c 20 g="UTF-8"?><kml
> 0030: 78 6d 6c 6e 73 3d 22 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 65 61 xmlns="http://ea
> 0040: 72 74 68 2e 67 6f 6f 67 6c 65 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 6b rth.google.com/k
> 0050: 6d 6c 2f 32 2e 30 22 3e 3c 50 6c 61 63 65 6d 61 ml/2.0"><Placema
> 0060: 72 6b 3e 3c 6e 61 6d 65 3e 4e c3 a6 72 75 6d 2c rk><name>N..rum,
> 0070: 20 44 65 6e 6d 61 72 6b 3c 2f 6e 61 6d 65 3e 3c  Denmark</name><
> 0080: 61 64 64 72 65 73 73 3e 4e 61 65 72 75 6d 2c 20 address>Naerum,
> 0090: 44 65 6e 6d 61 72 6b 3c 2f 61 64 64 72 65 73 73 Denmark</address
> 00a0: 3e 3c 73 74 79 6c 65 55 72 6c 3e 72 6f 6f 74 3a ><styleUrl>root:
> 00b0: 2f 2f 73 74 79 6c 65 4d 61 70 73 23 64 65 66 61 //styleMaps#defa
> 00c0: 75 6c 74 2b 6e 69 63 6f 6e 3d 30 78 33 30 34 2b ult+nicon=0x304+
> 00d0: 68 69 63 6f 6e 3d 30 78 33 31 34 3c 2f 73 74 79 hicon=0x314</sty
> 00e0: 6c 65 55 72 6c 3e 3c 50 6f 69 6e 74 3e 3c 63 6f leUrl><Point><co
> 00f0: 6f 72 64 69 6e 61 74 65 73 3e 31 32 2e 35 33 37 ordinates>12.537
> 0100: 38 39 35 2c 35 35 2e 38 31 36 33 32 38 2c 30 3c 895,55.816328,0<
> 0110: 2f 63 6f 6f 72 64 69 6e 61 74 65 73 3e 3c 2f 50 /coordinates></P
> 0120: 6f 69 6e 74 3e 3c 4c 6f 6f 6b 41 74 3e 3c 6c 6f oint><LookAt><lo
> 0130: 6e 67 69 74 75 64 65 3e 31 32 2e 35 33 37 38 39 ngitude>12.53789
> 0140: 35 3c 2f 6c 6f 6e 67 69 74 75 64 65 3e 3c 6c 61 5</longitude><la
> 0150: 74 69 74 75 64 65 3e 35 35 2e 38 31 36 33 32 38 titude>55.816328
> 0160: 3c 2f 6c 61 74 69 74 75 64 65 3e 3c 72 61 6e 67 </latitude><rang
> 0170: 65 3e 31 35 36 37 2e 30 34 37 32 34 31 3c 2f 72 e>1567.047241</r
> 0180: 61 6e 67 65 3e 3c 2f 4c 6f 6f 6b 41 74 3e 3c 2f ange></LookAt></
> 0190: 50 6c 61 63 65 6d 61 72 6b 3e 3c 2f 6b 6d 6c 3e Placemark></kml>
> 01a0: 0d 0a 30 0d 0a 0d 0a                            ..0....
> 
> I'm wondering about the latin small letter lambda before the XML,
> shouldn't that be incorrect?
> Because it parses fine and it surprised me actually.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen
> 
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