- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:59:32 -0400
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- cc: "Mcguigan, Thomas C (Tom), NBSO" <tmcguigan@att.com>
On Monday, August 07, 2000 at 14:30, tmcguigan@att.com (Mcguigan, Thomas C (Tom), NBSO) wrote: > I hope that you can help me with an XHTML question: > In the XHTML specification, the following appears: > "Note that in this example, the XML declaration is included. An XML > declaration like the one above is not required in all XML documents. XHTML > document authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all > their documents. Such a declaration is required when the character > encoding of the document is other than the default UTF-8 or UTF-16." > However, when I include the XML declaration: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > as the first line on my page, the latest version of Validator flags this > as an error. If I remove the declaration, and have my DOCTYPE declaration > as the first line, the page passes validation. > Is there a problem with the validator, or should I not be including the > XML declaration. > Thank you for clarifying this for me. An example file would be useful. I've validated XHTML files with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> in them with no errors. -- Christian Smith | csmith@barebones.com | http://web.barebones.com He who dies with the most friends... Is still dead!
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