Re: White spaces before Processing Instruction

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:46:27PM +0530, Prashant wrote:
> 
> Can Parser be forgiving about the white spaces before <?xml processing 
> instruction ?
> 
> I saw the code in XMLDocumentScannerImpl and noticed that there no way 
> around this. I wonder what the motivation is for parser to behave so in 
> handling the processing instruction.

As you can see from the XML specification
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-prolog) if a document has whitespace
before the <?xml then it isn't a valid XML document. 

David

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