Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Bad Continuation of Multi-Byte UTF-8 Sequence

[Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 06:37 PM 6/23/01, Jirka Kosek wrote:
>Norman Walsh wrote:
>> 
>> / Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say:
>> | All other files than master should contain only encoding declaration not
>> | full XML declaration:
>> |
>> | <?xml encoding="???"?>
>> 
>> I don't think that's valid XML. If you introduce an XML declaration,
>> you must specify the XML version number (and it must be 1.0).
>
>Encoding can be specified by this way for external parsed entities,
>version pseudoattribute is optional - moreover some XML processors are
>unable to process external entity if it contains version information in
>its declaration.   

Surely this is a weakness in the XML spec then? I'm stuffed if I need
an external parsed entity in a different encoding?

Regards DaveP