- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:47:24 -0500 (EST)
- To: lesch@macvirus.com, www-html@w3.org
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:01:02 -0700 > From: Susan Lesch <lesch@macvirus.com> > Subject: XML declaration > > Does XHTML require an XML declaration? No, at least according to the XML recommendation. However, it is useful for character encoding information. This is because the XML spec says a document is [2]: document ::= prolog element Misc* where prolog is [3]: prolog ::= XMLDecl? Misc* (doctypedecl Misc*)? and XMLDecl is the XML declaration and Misc is comments, whitespace, or processing instructions. > Because MSIE Mac downloads rather than displays documents with an XML > declaration (corrections welcome), the answer to this question might mean > the difference between using and not using XHTML. Great. What fun... On another note... the ".dtd" wasn't taken out of the xmlns in the example in section 3.1. [4] Furthermore, the contents at the top number the subsections using letters, but the text gives them numbers. David Baron > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-well-formed [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-prolog [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/#docconf
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