• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:53:49 -0500

Jeff Greif wrote:

> The minimal XHTML document used as an example in the WD is missing the the
> prolog PI
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>

Actually, no.  The XML declaration (it's not really a PI, though it
looks rather like one) is not required unless the encoding is
other than UTF-8 or UTF-16.

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