RE: Localization of XML

-----Original Message-----
From: erik@netscape.com [mailto:erik@netscape.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: Localization of XML

> [snip]
> I noticed that the following w3.org page uses XHTML:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/
>
> However, it doesn't start with the characters "<?xm" even though the
> charset is iso-8859-1...

This page is (currently) send with following media type:
  
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

So there is no need for an XML declaration. (Even if the
media type would be switched to text/xml, the charset parameter
of the Content-Type header would remain authoritative.)

All the best,
Paul

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