- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:25:22 -0400
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
- cc: roconnor@math.berkeley.edu
On 9/4/01 at 6:22 PM, roconnor@math.berkeley.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote:
>
> > My two cents about that: First cent: XHTML 1.0 Appendix C.1 confuses all
> > XML/HTML beginners because the XML declaration is mentioned in that
> > paragraph about processing instructions as if it were a processing
> > instruction, but the XML declaration is not a processing instruction, it
> > is explicitely excluded from processing instructions by the XML
> > specification (first and second edition).
>
> Where does the XML specification say this? I couldn't find it (seached
> for all occurances of "processin instruction").
He's refering to the fact that the XML specification states that a PI is of
the form
Processing Instructions
[16] PI ::= '<?' PITarget (S (Char* - (Char* '?>' Char*)))? '?>'
[17] PITarget ::= Name - (('X' | 'x') ('M' | 'm') ('L' | 'l'))
and that the targets "xml" and "XML" etc are reserved. So, an "XML
declaration" is not strictly a PI, it just looks like one.
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