<> wrote:
> I am not sure if when I write <?xml version="1.0"?> in a doc I am
> writing
> a xml declaration or a PI.
If you write it at the start of an XML document it is an XML
declaration.
If you write it anywhere else it is a well-formedness error,
including at the start of an external entity since text declarations
must supply an encoding attribute.
> The reply to above question depends of the arbiter used, the formal
> spec
> or a real working implementation?
>
> Apparently my Mozilla based browser sometimes deals the xml
> declaration as
> a PI. I obtain something like
>
> <message>
> xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
> </message>
>
> ... Sorry to say this but I never work with the formal
> spec, just with real implementations in browsers, tools...
Mozilla error messages are not normative. And just because many
native English speakers say things like "If I was rich" doesn't make
such utterances grammatically correct English.
--
犬 Chris Burdess
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
