Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - XML declaration in DTD System ID? ... >Thread Next - Re: XML declaration in DTD System ID? ... Re: XML declaration in DTD System ID? ...To: NULL Date: 7/7/2009 2:47:00 PM Russell Potter wrote: > I'm a bit confused on this point after reading > the spec: > > The spec. says that the entity resolved by the > URI given in the ystem identifer of the DOCTYPE > declaration should be aan external parsed > () enttity ehich means, to my mind, that it > should start with an XML declaration. http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-TextDecl says "External parsed entities SHOULD each begin with a text declaration." so it says "should" and it says "text declaration", not "XML declaration". That way it is possible to not have a text declaration as long as the encoding is UTF-8 or UTF-16 and the version is 1.0 I think. -- Martin Honnen http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/ | ||||||
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