[whatwg] Submission in XML

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu May 13 06:16:21 PDT 2004


On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Daniel Bratell wrote:
>
> I just reread the section about the XML submission format and it reminded
> me about a thing I've been wondering. Why isn't the XML header <?xml
> version='1.1' ?>  included in the submit? Wouldn't that be the natural so
> that it could be fed directly into an XML parser?

I've changed it to use XML 1.0, in which the header is optional. So there
is in fact no need to have the header to feed the XML directly into an XML
parser any more, which should address your question.

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