Re: White spaces before Processing Instruction

Prashant <prashant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/27/2006 10:16:27 AM:

> 
> Can Parser be forgiving about the white spaces before <?xml processing 
> instruction ?

No. The XML declaration [1] (which by the way is not a processing 
instruction, even though it looks like one) cannot [2] be preceded by 
whitespace. If it is then your document isn't well-formed and you'll get a 
fatal error.

> 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.
> 
> -Prashant
> 
> 
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-XMLDecl
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-prolog

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@xxxxxxxxxx
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