Re: making mozilla's xml to behave in a non-standard way

none wrote:
> Marco Milanesi wrote:
>
> > hi, this is a strange question I know, but I hope to get some responses:
> >
> >     I have a web application that I can't modify. it outputs an xml to
> > the browser with newlines and spaces at the beginning of the xml.
> >
> > now the question. How can I modify this behaviour of mozilla? how can it
> > be more tolerant to this malformed xml?
>
> It is not malformed. It is legal to put whites characters before the 
> <?xml .. tag
> It's mozilla which needs fixing, as many other buggy xml parsers.

Actually, could you quote the spec? Or tell me how I quote wrong?

From XML 1.0 3rd edition:


http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-well-formed

[Definition: A textual object is a well-formed XML document if:]
1. Taken as a whole, it matches the production labeled document.
...

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-document

[1]     document           ::=          prolog element Misc*

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-prolog

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

As you can see, there is no whitespace in front of the XMLDecl.

Axel