- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:24:22 +0300
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Eric Bednarz <lists@bednarz.nl>
On Sunday 27 May 2007, Martin Duerst wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:21:12 +0200, Eric Bednarz <lists@bednarz.nl> wrote: > > [This was quite a while ago, and I missed it, but it definitely > needs to be answered.] > > ><?xml > > > >Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote: > >> At 14:54 06/10/05, olivier Thereaux wrote: > >>> On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:46 , Martin Duerst wrote: > >>>> - A document starting with "<?xml" can easily be guessed to be XML > >>>> rather than SGML. > > > >I guess you are reading XML right now. > > If you mean that I was just reading the XML spec for the first > time, then you definitely guessed wrong. I don't think he meant that. Note that Eric's message to which you replied to started with "<?xml" (visible also in the quoted part above) - I think he meant that as a case where those characters at the start of a document/file/whatever (in this case, a mail message body) don't mean that it should be treated as an XML document.
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