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Re: XML Declaration: msg#00026

Subject: Re: XML Declaration
Thanks Joe, for the clarification.  I've found that I
can side step the issue altogether if I call
getDocumentElement( ) rather than getChild( ).

-jason
--- Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 
> Oracle is wrong. The XML Declaration is not a child
> in the DOM. Complain to
> them and see if they offer a mode which handles it
> properly.
> 
> (The DOM had no standard API for the XML Declaration
> until DOM Level 3,
> which is part of why some parsers tried to cheat by
> turning it into a
> special node or -- erroneously -- calling it a
> Processing Instruction. But
> the DOM WG has said repeatedly that this kluge was,
> in fact, incorrect.)
> 
> ______________________________________
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> XML, XSL and more.
> "The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the
> day Tim Berners Lee
> got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin,
> in r.m.filk
> 
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