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[Richard Tobin] > I think the best compromise is to say that documents labelled with a > version other than 1.0 are not well-formed XML 1.0 documents, but that > an XML 1.0 parser may accept them. This breaks no documents and no > implementations, but it allows us to unambiguously state the version > of a document. Can anyone see any problems with it? > It seems to make sense, yet I have a bit of trouble thinking a document is not well-formed when it can become well-formed just by removing the xml declaration. I remember we had some long threads on this months ago (or was it last year?) but I do not remember any well-accepted solution emerging. Guess it is time again. How about if 1) A 1.1 parser could optionally have a 1.0 mode, and 2) There were programmatic means to query whether it supported 1,0, and if it did, 3) The parse mode could be set programmatically, and maybe 4) Such a parser failing on a document could optionally (under program control) switch modes and try again. This last could be a recommended design practice, rather than a requirement. Cheers, Tom P
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