Re: [xml-dev] [Summary #2] Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8") put Inside the XML Document?

----- Original Message From: "Eric Bréchemier" <>

> "Whitespace may preceed an XML declaration, so an XML parser will
> parse through the whitespace bytes until it arrives at the start of
> the XML declaration."
>
> This (whitespace before XML declaration) is not allowed by the EBNF
> productions defining a well-formed XML Document:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-well-formed

However, you can get leading whitespace if the XML decl is not present 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-prolog).  Or you might get the start of an 
element, doctype decl, PI or Comment (and maybe some other things!).  That 
results in the 'Other' case at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing-no-ext-info.

Cheers,

Pete.
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