[David Schach]
> I get the following error:
> 
> System does not support the specified encoding. Line 1, Position 28 
> 
> <?xml encoding="US-ASCII"?>
> 
> I think the encoding name is case sensitive so it should be
> "us-ascii" or "iso-8859-1".

XML 1.0 §4.3.3 says:

<quote>
   Note that these registered names are defined to be case-
   insensitive, so processors wishing to match against them should do
   so in a case-insensitive way.
</quote>

> Also, shouldn't the xml declaration include version="1.0"?

Depends on where it occurs.  At the start of a document, yes, but in a
TextDeclaration ([77]) at the top of a parsed entity, the version
parameter is optional.

-Chris

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