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At 7:33 AM -0400 10/25/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Since XML 1.1 must declare the version, anything
>that doesn't declare the version is 1.0 by default. There is no such thing as
>a document that is both WF 1.0 and WF 1.1 (though the great bulk of
>documents can be trivially converted by just changing the version
>declaration).
Well, that's one of the tricky points. It is *not* a well-formedness
error for an XML 1.0 document to label itself version="1.1",
version="2.0", or version="mauve". This is neither a violation of the
BNF grammar nor any well-formedness constraint in the XML 1.0 spec.
I quote:
The version number "1.0" should be used to indicate conformance to
this version of this specification; it is an error for a document to
use the value "1.0" if it does not conform to this version of this
specification. It is the intent of the XML working group to give
later versions of this specification numbers other than "1.0", but
this intent does not indicate a commitment to produce any future
versions of XML, nor if any are produced, to use any particular
numbering scheme. Since future versions are not ruled out, this
construct is provided as a means to allow the possibility of
automatic version recognition, should it become necessary. Processors
may signal an error if they receive documents labeled with versions
they do not support.
There is nothing here that requires 1.0 parsers to signal an error
when they encounter a 1.1 document, nor is it such a document 1.0
malformed merely by virtue of version="1.1" Thus it is possible to
have a document that is both well-formed 1.0 XML and well-formed 1.1
XML.
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