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> Why? Shouldn't metadata be external to a document? Sadly, most of us are using file systems based on 1960s thinking that don't allow metadata to be held anywhere other than in the content of the file (or potentially in its name). So while it would be very nice to hold it in some kind of external file description, and to have it reliably preserved (or where appropriate, modified) by protocols that move the file from one place to another or that change its encoding, that isn't the way today's systems work. And the prospect of ever having mainstream operating systems and file transfer protocols that do some strong typing on files and their contents seems as far away as ever. So pragmatic solutions like the XML declaration reign, despite their obvious inadequacies. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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