Re: standalone="no"

  Recently, I went to an XML users group meeting and someone said that
  the 'standalone' instruction can shut down the processing of the XML
  document in some processors.


Having

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

is the same as not having the xml declaration at all as they are the
specified defaults  for version encoding and standalone (not quite true
for encoding, but nearly) so no conforming processor should barf on
standalone="no" if it accepts a file with no standalone declaration.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/#sec-rmd

says:

   If there are no external markup declarations, the standalone document
   declaration has no meaning. If there are external markup declarations
   but there is no standalone document declaration, the value "no" is
   assumed.


David

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