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----- Original Message From: "Eric Bréchemier" <eric.brechemier@g...> > "Whitespace may preceed an XML declaration, so an XML parser will > parse through the whitespace bytes until it arrives at the start of > the XML declaration." > > This (whitespace before XML declaration) is not allowed by the EBNF > productions defining a well-formed XML Document: > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-well-formed However, you can get leading whitespace if the XML decl is not present (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-prolog). Or you might get the start of an element, doctype decl, PI or Comment (and maybe some other things!). That results in the 'Other' case at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing-no-ext-info. Cheers, Pete. -- ============================================= Pete Cordell Codalogic for XML Schema to C++ data binding visit http://www.codalogic.com/lmx/ =============================================
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