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

[Dan Allen]

It's a huge pain to link to threads from the mailinglist archives, but
here's Andy's e-mail on the subject:

http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0905&L=jsr-314-open&F=&S=&X=40EFF100C4CB5F138F&P=922

-Dan

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, I forgot one use case. Max was saying that they need to use CDATA in
> their templates, but the CDATA should not be sent to the browser. So there
> is the same problem with CDATA as with the XML declaration.
>
> -Dan
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Dan Allen
>> Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action
>> Registered Linux User #231597
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dan Allen
> Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action
> Registered Linux User #231597
>
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>



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