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

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say:
| > / 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 - 

With respect, the version pseudoattribute is not optional. From the
XML Recommendation:

   [22] prolog  ::= XMLDecl? Misc* (doctypedecl Misc*)?
   [23] XMLDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>'

The XML Declaration is optional, but if it is present, the version
pseudoattribute must be present.

| moreover some XML processors are
| unable to process external entity if it contains version information in
| its declaration.   

That's a bug in the implementation.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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