Re: Polyglot Markup/XML encoding declaration

Leif Halvard Silli wrote:

> E.g. a typical polyglot - UTF-8 encoded, that is - could start like 
> this:
> 
> ]]
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <head>
>   <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
> [[

XML declaration is optional if document is encoded in UTF-8/16. So why
to use it at all -- it will just cause troubles to UAs parsing this
stuff with HTML parser.

    Jirka

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Received on Thursday, 29 July 2010 13:44:23 UTC