- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:14:01 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
On 2008-06-11 03:34:29 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > It does not. You honor the processing instruction only if it > occurs in the prolog of an XML document. If you get a 206 > response (that does not start at the first byte at least), you > don't have an XML document but a XML fragment, you don't know > whether a processing instruction you might find is in fact in the > prolog, and you might not even be able to decode the document at > all because you didn't read the encoding declaration. > (It's quite possible the drafts say otherwise, that would most > likely be to blame on the all-inclusive step-by-step instruction > writing style. It should say what I wrote above and thus avoid > this particular problem.) FWIW, +1 to that point. -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org>
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