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   Re: Illustration of Different Node Trees for XML (W3C(XT)/IE5)

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  • From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
  • To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 17:03:22 -0400

Chris Lovett wrote:

> (2) IE5 gives you all PI's.  I don't see why the <?xml delcaration is not a
> valid PI for representation in your DOM.  What if you want to change the
> encoding and save the document back out ?

The XML declaration and text declaration look like PIs to SGML engines,
but they aren't, per the XML rec.  They don't have the same syntax,
occurrence constraints, etc.

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