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Re: XML declaration in DTD System ID? ...

From: Joe Kesselman <keshlam.cat.nospam@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 7/11/2009 2:44:00 PM
> But, actually, looking through the XML grammar
> in the spec., the only mandatory start of an XML
> document is the start of the document's root
> element ('<'), so since we know that the absense
> of an XML declaration means the encoding must be
> either UTF-8, UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE, then the first
> two bytes must be {'<', non-0}, {'<', 0} and
> {0, '<'},respectively (I think :-), to detect the
> encoding.


Almost right. There one thing which may come before the XML Declaration 
or Text Declaration is a byte order mark.

If you look at the appendix to the XML Recommendation which deals 
specifically with this -- and which I believe I posted a URL for -- they 
describe exactly how to handle this.


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