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"James Tauber" <jtauber@j...> writes: > > I'm interested in the extent to which people are actually using the XML > > processing instruction ( <?xml ) in their XML files, and the extent to > which > > they find it useful. > > You mean the XML Declaration? > > It is clearly useful if you use a different character encoding to UTF-8 > (hence also US-ASCII) or UTF-16. The XML Declaration (not a PI) is also very useful for forwards-compatibility, so that in the future XML 1.1 (etc.) parsers will know that they are dealing with XML 1.0 and can either [a] apply the appropriate rules or [b] die gracefully, depending on the requirements of future XML specs, if any. The bad news is that level-three browsers do ugly things when they see the XML declaration, but they do ugly things with lots of XML syntax (since they're not actually XML browsers). All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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