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Re: [xml-dev] [Summary #2] Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8") put Inside the XML Document?
- From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@tech-know-ware.com>
- To: Eric Bréchemier <eric.brechemier@gmail.com>,"Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:32:44 +0100
----- Original Message From: "Eric Bréchemier" <eric.brechemier@gmail.com>
> "Whitespace may preceed an XML declaration, so an XML parser will
> parse through the whitespace bytes until it arrives at the start of
> the XML declaration."
>
> This (whitespace before XML declaration) is not allowed by the EBNF
> productions defining a well-formed XML Document:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-well-formed
However, you can get leading whitespace if the XML decl is not present
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-prolog). Or you might get the start of an
element, doctype decl, PI or Comment (and maybe some other things!). That
results in the 'Other' case at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing-no-ext-info.
Cheers,
Pete.
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