- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:57:31 +0300
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Matej Lednár wrote: > The XML declaration problem still continue (Validator creating comment > and add XML declaration with UTF-8). As Benjamin noted, this is not a bug, it is completely intentional. The way the validator currently works, it needs to do it as well as override charset info in meta elements when passing the document to certain validation backends (libxml and validator.nu at the moment) in order to avoid false positive errors from them. We could choose to not show the actual source passed to these backends and just echo back what was given, but that would result in confusion if our charset overriding function was the reason for some errors they report - there would be no way for the end user to see what was actually validated.
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