[jsr-314-open] [xmldecl-696] suppressing XML declaration for MR1

[Dan Allen]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll at sun.com> wrote:

> Oh, THAT's what he meant.  He tried to describe the problem to me, but our
> discussion got cut off.  I've even run into this with demos - it's actually
> a pretty big deal, I think.
>

+1


>
> Fortunately, the declaration is optional, as I understand the XML standard.
>

Right, but from what I understand from Max, tooling is adding it
aggressively and it becomes a fight between developer and tool to leave it
off. He could probably speak to this more.


>
> As for "some browsers", let's just name it:  IE.  The XML declaration
> triggers their "I don't care about your mime-type, I know better than you"
> code.  Though it wouldn't be surprising if it triggered some quirks-mode in
> other browsers.
>

Yep, pretty much.

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