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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:06:43 -0400
Matthew Sergeant (EML) wrote:
> Also, a note to John Cowan: In reading through your detector I noticed that
> it only checks for g=["']...["'], not the full encoding=["']...["'] -
> Personally I don't think that's safe, but having read your C code (and
> knowing C's poor handling of strings) I can understand why you did it... <g>
Actually, it *is* safe. Once we see "<?xml ", where the last character
can be any whitespace character, we know beyond doubt that this is
an XML declaration/text declaration. The first "g" appearing in
the declaration is necessarily the last letter of "encoding", unless
XML is extended to a version number that includes the letter "g",
which is most unlikely. The only other way that a "g" can appear is
within the name of the charset itself.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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